Article published in:
Advances in Gothic Philology and LinguisticsEdited by Alexandra Holsting and Hans Frede Nielsen †
[NOWELE 71:2] 2018
► pp. 176–183
Nursery words and hypocorisms among Germanic kinship terms
Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen | University of Copenhagen
By using Jakobson’s (1960: 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 2017: 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
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Secondary literature
Published online: 21 June 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/nowele.00011.han
https://doi.org/10.1075/nowele.00011.han
References
Primary sources
Lev. Book of Leviticus.
Math. Gospel of Matthew.
Voc.W. Vocabularium ex quo. Fol. aus der Jahre 1429. Auf der Bibliothek zu Wolfenbüttel.
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