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- Title
On the Origin of the Proto-Indo-European Local Adjectives in *-mnó-<sup>1</sup>.
- Authors
Steer, Thomas
- Abstract
The goal of the present article is to show that Proto-Indo-European local adjectives formed with the suffix *-mnó- (e.g., Vedic ni-mná- ‘low-lying, deep' < *ni-mnó-, Greek πρυ-μνóς ‘prominent' < *pro-mnó-) originally were compounds consisting of a local adverb (e.g., *ni, *pro) as the first compound member and *-mn(h2)-ó- as the second compound member. The latter can be analyzed as a thematic extension of the zerograde of the Proto-Indo-European root *men or *mneh2 ‘to see, look' (cf., e.g., Cuneiform Luwian mimma- ‘regard, recognize, favor' < *mi-mn- and manā- /mnā-/ ‘to see' < *mnah2-) or *men ‘to protrude, jut' (cf., e.g., Latin prō-minēre ‘to jut out'). The original meaning of local adjectives of the type *x-mn(h2)-ó- was thus ‘looking/protruding x-wards'.
- Subjects
PROTO-Indo-European language; LITHUANIAN language; NOUNS; INDO-Iranians; ETYMOLOGY
- Publication
Historical Linguistics / Historische Sprachforschung, 2015, Vol 128, Issue 1, p205
- ISSN
0935-3518
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13109/hisp.2015.128.1.205