Dravidian and Altaic "to bend/to bow - elbow/knee/ankle": initial dental stop or nasal, medial velar or labial

Title:

Dravidian and Altaic "to bend/to bow - elbow/knee/ankle": initial dental stop or nasal, medial velar or labial

Creator:

Vacek, Jaroslav

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:ef9b3212-ee2b-45df-a474-98d7b970593e
uuid:ef9b3212-ee2b-45df-a474-98d7b970593e

Subject:

etymology and language

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Format:

bez média and svazek

Description:

This paper discusses the etymological nest of Dravidian and Altaic lexemes with the meaning “to bow, bend” and the terms for the “elbow,” “knee,” “ankle” as a dynamic etymological model. The lexemes have the general formal structure of the CVC- root with an initial dental (stop or nasal) and medial velars or labials. In the first section of the paper the verbs and some of their derivatives are listed and discussed also with regards to several overlapping etyma with different meanings. The second section sums up the terms for the body parts related etymologically to the respective verbs. In the conclusion select Altaic reconstructions are listed for comparison.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Source:

Archiv orientální | 2007 Volume:75 | Number:3

Harvested from:

CDK

Metadata only:

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