TY - JOUR
TI - EXPRESSIVENESS AND VARIATION: THE ETYMOLOGY OF GERM. KLADDER ‘DIRT, MUD’
AU - Sturm, Laura
TI - EXPRESSIVENESS AND VARIATION: THE ETYMOLOGY OF GERM. KLADDER ‘DIRT, MUD’
AB - 
	Although the Germanc dialects offer very ancient vocabulary, the have long been neglected from an etymological perspective. A very old word is e.g. Germ. Kladder ‘dirt, mud’. Because of its onomatopoetic nature this word shows a considerable diversification and expansion in the Germanic languages: klatt- and klāt‑ in Low German, Middle German, Upper German next to kladd‑ only in Low German. Those words ultimately go back to a Proto-Germanic substantive *klađđō f. ‘clot, lump, mud, dirt’, leading to the well-known PIE root *gleh1‑ ‘to be greasy, to be dirty’.
VL - 2016
IS - Volume 133, Issue 2
PY - 2016
SN - 1897-1059
C1 - 2083-4624
SP - 109
EP - 114
DO - 10.4467/20834624SL.16.008.5154
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-linguistica-uic/artykul/expressiveness-and-variation-the-etymology-of-germ-kladder-dirt-mud
KW - Germanic
KW - etymology
KW - expressive germination
KW - littera-rule
KW - kladder