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- Title
SUR L’ÉTYMOLOGIE DU LATIN virgō « VIERGE ».
- Authors
GARNIER, Romain
- Abstract
(On the etymology of Latin virgō ‘virgin’). The following paper is intended to explain the etymology of Lat. uirgō ‘virgin’, which serves both as adjective and substantive. There is a synchronic opposition in Latin between uirgō and mulier ‘woman’, the last of which clearly alludes to sexuality, in such a locution as mulierem reddere ‘to make someone a woman’. According to the Hittite formula natta=arkant- ‘not-covered, unmounted’, which is used for sheep and cows, this puzzling Latin word could be accounted for by a PIE privative compound *h1uí-h1rĝh-ōn ‘not-covered, unmounted’. This inherited vocable would eventually belong to the PIE root *h1erĝh- ‘to mount, cover’ which is likely to have been used by cattle-breeders.
- Subjects
LATIN etymology; SYNCHRONIC linguistics; LATIN terms &; phrases; HUMAN sexuality; HITTITE language
- Publication
Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia, 2014, Vol 19, Issue 2, p59
- ISSN
1427-8219
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4467/20843836SE.14.003.1646