Original h in Hittite and the Medio-Passive in r
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11118895 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E H Sturtevant (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1928 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 159 |
| Publication date | 1928-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/409385 |
| OpenAlex | W2328849976 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
I have tried to show (L anguage 3. 109–22) that Hittite h occurs where the Indo-European languages have bh initial, and I can now make two or three additions to the material there presented. In L anguage 4. 122 f. I have connected halanta ‘head’ with Greek φαλός·λευκός, φαλακρός ‘bald’, and Sanskrit bhālam ‘forehead’, on the assumption that the original meaning of the Hittite word was ‘bald’. Hittite haš-, hašh - ‘open’, must be identified with IE *bhosos ‘naked’, whence Lithuanian bãsas ‘bare-foot’, Old English bær , etc. The verb pihiš -, which, accompanied by the adverb arha , means ‘strike off, cut off, take off’ or the like, contains the verbal prefix pe -, while hiš - is an extension in s of the root which appears in IE *bhei - ‘strike’ (Old High German bīhal ‘axe’, etc.), and whose extended form *bheid - means ‘split’ (Sanskrit bhinadmi , Latin findo , etc). Another instance of h = bh after the verbal prefix pe - is pehar(k) - ‘hold towards’ ( Keilschrifttexte aus Boghazköi 4. 2. 2. 25, Keilschrift-Urkunden aus Boghazköi 13. 4. 4. 37) beside har ( k )- ‘have’ on which see L anguage 3. 117 f
Hittite language · Linguistics · Ancient Near East History · History · Linguistics and Cultural Studies · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
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| Citation span | 2011 - 2024 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |