Old Nordic herðr ‘shoulder’ and Greek κορσίς ‘behind, buttocks, ass’: Is there any etymological relationship between them?
Abstrak
The article discusses a possible relationship between the Proto-Germanic term for ‘shoulder’ (ON. herðr f., Far. herðar f. pl.; Elfd. erde f.; OHG. harti, herti f., MHG. herte f. [θ] > Lac. σ [s]. The Laconian word κορσίς goes back to the Doric appellative *κορθίς, which presumably derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱerdh- ‘to fart, blow to, break wind’, secondarily ‘to stink, smell’ (cf. Ved. śárdhate ‘s/he breaks wind downwards’; Lat. cerda f. ‘dung’ attested in mūscerdae f. pl. ‘mouse droppings’, ovicerda f. ‘sheep dung’ etc.). The Laconian derivative has reliable semantic equivalents in other Indo-European languages (e.g. Skt. śr̥dhū- f. ‘the anus, rump’, śr̥dhu- m. ‘id.’). The Proto-Germanic term *hardīz (gen. sg. *hardjōz) ‘shoulder’ has no convincing etymology. Its juxtaposition with the Laconian word κορσίς ( ‘a stinking part of the body’ > ‘armpit’ > ‘shoulder’ must have taken place already in the Proto-Germanic epoch.
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Elwira Kaczyńska
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2023
- Bahasa
- en
- Sumber Database
- Semantic Scholar
- DOI
- 10.26881/bp.2023.4.01
- Akses
- Open Access ✓