Volume 20, Issue 1

This paper presents a proper linguistic assessment of the Tungusic reading of the Buyla inscription, as proposed by the late Eugene Helimski (1950–2007) who believed that one of the languages spoken by the European Avars was Tungusic. The main conclusion is that the Tungusic reading should be rejected. This outcome partly agrees with the communis opinio whereby the Buyla inscription hides a(n unidentified so far) Turkic language.

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Discovery of the origin of the word asteroid and the Related Terms asteroidal, planetoid, planetkin, planetule, and cometoid

Clifford J. Cunningham

Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia, Volume 20, Issue 1, 2015, s. 47-62

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843836SE.15.003.2789

Asteroid is now one of the most widely used words in English. For more than two centuries it has been assumed that the astronomer William Herschel created the word, but that assumption can be shown to be false. This paper reveals for the first time the true identity of the person who coined the word asteroid, and the origins of five other related words: asteroidal, planetoid, planetkin, planetule and cometoid. In the cases of asteroidal and cometoid, this paper corrects errors in the OED.

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The origin of aroint and other -oint-words in english

Bernhard Diensberg

Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia, Volume 20, Issue 1, 2015, s. 63-69

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843836SE.15.004.2790

Regarding the word form aroint, I am going to propose an etymological base for it in the group of French loanwords of the structure oin + consonant. As far as verbal loans are concerned, the root -oint can either stand for the 3rd pers. sing. pres. ind. or for the past participle of Old French verbs of the type poindre ‘to pierce, prick; to sting, bite’ (AND1: poindre), uindre, oindre ‘to anoint; to rub, smear’ (AND1: oindre). Apart from a short bibliography, the Appendix contains a selection of illustrative material.

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Eschew and askew, askance and askant

Bernhard Diensberg

Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia, Volume 20, Issue 1, 2015, s. 71-88

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843836SE.15.005.2791

Under the entry askance, adv.2 (1530, OED2), the editors add the following nota: There is a whole group of words of more or less obscure origin in ask-, containing askance, askant, askew, askie, askile, askoye, askoyne, (with which compare asklent adv., aslant adv., asquint adv.,) which are more or less closely connected in sense, and seem to have influenced one another in form. They appear mostly in the 16th or end of the 15th c., and none of them can be certainly traced up to Old English; though they can nearly all be paralleled by words in various languages, evidence is wanting as to their actual origin and their relations to one another.

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Słowa kluczowe: etymology, philology, medieval history of Asia, historical and comparative linguistics, Tungusic, Hungarian, Avars, migration, astronomy, asteroid, planetoid, planetule, Herschel, etymology, French loanwords, historical morphology, etymology, French loanwords, historical morphology

Volume 20, Issue 1

2015 Następne

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2015