A Note on the Balto-Slavic and Indo-European Background of the Proto-Slavic Adjective *svętъ ‘Holy’
| Autor: | Marek Majer |
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| Jazyk: | German<br />English<br />French<br />Italian<br />Polish<br />Russian |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | Studia Ceranea, Vol 7, Pp 139-149 (2017) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2084-140X 2449-8378 |
| DOI: | 10.18778/2084-140X.07.09 |
| Popis: | The standard etymological explanation of the Proto-Slavic adjective *svętъ ‘holy, saint’ – a word of extreme literary, cultural and religious importance in the Slavic world – concentrates on the formal match with Lithuanian šventas ‘id.’ and Avestan spəṇta‑ ‘life-giving, holy’ (PIE *ḱwen‑to‑, from the root *ḱwen‑). This article highlights the verbal formation seen in Latvian svinêtsvin svinẽjo ‘celebrate, venerate’, generally recognized as another reflex of the root *ḱwen‑ in Balto-Slavic, but without due attention to the formal implications. It is argued that both in Av. and in BSl. the adjective spəṇta‑/*svętъ behaves as an item participating in the so-called ‘Caland System’ (a set of arbitrary morphological alternations reconstructible for Proto-Indo-European). |
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