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Article published In: Advances in Gothic Philology and Linguistics
Edited by Alexandra Holsting and Hans Frede Nielsen †
[NOWELE 71:2] 2018
► pp. 176–183

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Nursery words and hypocorisms among Germanic kinship terms

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Published online: 21 June 2018
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Abstract
By using Jakobson’s (Jakobson, R. 1960. Why ‘Mama’ and ‘Papa’? In B. Kaplan & S. Wapner (eds.), Perspectives in psychological theory. Essays in honor of Heinz Werner, 124–134. New York: International Universities Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar: 127–130) criteria for determining the nursery-word status of a given lexeme, I argue in this article that, even if we should no longer regard PG *aiþīn-/-ōn- ‘mother’ (Goth. aiþei), *aiþma- ‘daughter’s husband’ and *faþōn- ‘father’s sister’ as nursery words or hypocorisms (Hansen, B. S. S. 2017. Nursery words and hypocorisms among Germanic kinship terms. In B. S. S. Hansen et al. (eds.), Usque ad radices. Indo-European studies in honour of Birgit Anette Olsen, 207–220. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar: 207–220), we should certainly still do so for PG *ammōn- ‘parent’s mother; wet nurse’, *attan- ‘father’ (Goth. atta), *basōn- ‘father’s sister’ and *mōnōn-/mōmōn- ‘mother; mother’s sister’.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.PG *ammōn- ‘parent’s mother; wet nurse’
  • 3.PG *attan- ‘father’
  • 4.PG *basōn- ‘father’s sister’
  • 5.PG *mōnōn-/mōmōn- ‘mother; mother’s sister’
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Primary sources
  • Secondary literature
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