Simon, Zsolt (2019) Zur Herkunft von leuga. ACTA ANTIQUA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARUM HUNGARICAE, 59 (1-4). pp. 425-433. ISSN 0044-5975 (print); 1588-2543 (online)
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Abstract
According to the communis opinio, Lat. leuga was a Gaulish loanword, survived in the Romance languages and was borrowed into Old English. However, this scenario faces three unsolved problems: the non-Celtic diphthong -eu-, the Proto-Romance form *legua and the fact that the Old English word cannot continue the Latin form on phonological grounds. This paper argues that all these problems can regularly be solved by the reconstructed West Germanic and Gothic cognates of the Old English word borrowed into Gaulish and early Romance dialects, respectively.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | MTA KFB támogatási szerződés alapján archiválva |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Latin etymology, Romance etymology, Gaulish, Germanic, West Germanic, Old English |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > PA Classical philology / klasszika-filológia |
| SWORD Depositor: | MTMT SWORD |
| Depositing User: | MTMT SWORD |
| Date Deposited: | 18 May 2022 08:13 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Sep 2023 06:41 |
| URI: | https://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/142892 |
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