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EXPRESSIVENESS AND VARIATION: THE ETYMOLOGY OF GERM. KLADDER ‘DIRT, MUD’

Publication date: 02.09.2016

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2016, Volume 133, Issue 2, pp. 109 - 114

https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.16.008.5154

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Laura Sturm
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
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EXPRESSIVENESS AND VARIATION: THE ETYMOLOGY OF GERM. KLADDER ‘DIRT, MUD’

Abstract

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’.

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Information: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2016, Volume 133, Issue 2, pp. 109 - 114

Article type: Original article

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EXPRESSIVENESS AND VARIATION: THE ETYMOLOGY OF GERM. KLADDER ‘DIRT, MUD’

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EXPRESSIVENESS AND VARIATION: THE ETYMOLOGY OF GERM. KLADDER ‘DIRT, MUD’

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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Published at: 02.09.2016

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