Publication details
‘River’ and ‘sand’ in Slavic and Indo-European context
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Etymological Research into Old Church Slavonic |
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| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | Indo-European; river; stream; shore; sand; semantic typology |
| Description | In the present article the nominal derivatives of the Indo-European verb **H3reiH- ‘to set in motion’ are analyzed from semantic and morphological points of view. These derivatives form a remarkable semantic field defined by such meanings as ‘watercourse’ - ‘river’ - ‘riverbed’ - ‘shallow’ - ‘sandbank’ - ‘sand’ - ‘sandhill’. It is natural that such terms serve as bases for hydronyms. For illustration of similar semantic dispersion examples from Afroasiatic are used. |
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