Sails in the North-New Perspectives on an Old Problem
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12406572 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katrin Thier (Oxford University Press (United Kingdom), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 182-190 |
| Publication date | 2003-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1057-2414 • E-ISSN: 1095-9270 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1095-9270.2003.tb01443.x |
| OpenAlex | W4253533307 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 13 |
The origin of sail has been debated for a long time, but the linguistic evidence has rarely been taken into account. The word sail has a cognate in two Celtic languages, and a good linguistic chronology is available for these. The reconstructed historical development of Celtic and Germanic words indicates that the word existed in West Germanic well before the Anglo-Saxon migrations and the confinement of Celtic to the British Isles. An origin of both word and technology in the Celtic world is proposed, both being passed into the Germanic world in the Rhine region
Ancient history · Archaeology · Celtic languages · Chronology · Cognate · Etymology · German · Germanic languages · Linguistics · Word (group theory · History · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy
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Studies in British Celtic Historical Phonology
Late Roman Rhine vessels from Mainz, Germany
A new anglo-saxon ship
The sailing characteristics of Saxon ships as derived from half-scale working models with special reference to the Sutton Hoo ship
A boat of the Roman period found at Bruges, Belgium, in 1899, and related types
Proto-Indo-European
Dendrochronological dating of the Viking Age ship burials at Oseberg, Gokstad and Tune, Norway
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0.09 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2011 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |