%0 Journal Article
%T EXPRESSIVENESS AND VARIATION: THE ETYMOLOGY OF GERM. KLADDER ‘DIRT, MUD’
%A Sturm, Laura
%J Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
%V 2016
%R 10.4467/20834624SL.16.008.5154
%N Volume 133, Issue 2
%P 109-114
%K Germanic, etymology, expressive germination, littera-rule, kladder
%@ 1897-1059
%D 2016
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-linguistica-uic/article/expressiveness-and-variation-the-etymology-of-germ-kladder-dirt-mud
%X 
	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’.