Hittite kapart‐/kapirt‐ ‘small rodent’ and Proto‐Semitic *ˁkbr‐t‐ ‘mouse, jerboa’
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Hittite kapart‐/kapirt‐ ‘small rodent’ and Proto‐Semitic *ˁkbr‐t‐ ‘mouse, jerboa’. / Kroonen, Guus.
I: Indogermanische Forschungen, Bind 121, Nr. 1, 2016, s. 53–62.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Hittite kapart‐/kapirt‐ ‘small rodent’ and Proto‐Semitic *ˁkbr‐t‐ ‘mouse, jerboa’
AU - Kroonen, Guus
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The Hittite doublet kapart-/kapirt-, designating a small rodent, is currently assumed to continue an Indo-European formation. Hittitologists almost unanimously analyze it as an ablauting t-stem coined from the preverb *ko(m)- ‘together’ and the Indo-European root *bʰer- ‘to carry’, i. e. *ko(m)-bʰēr-t- or *ko(m)- bʰr̥-t. Accordingly, the meaning ‘small rodent’ is explained as having developed from ‘collector’ or ‘hoarder’. It appears that there is a good alternative to this etymology, however, as the Semitic languages offer evidence for a feminine t-stem to the root *ˁkbr- meaning ‘mouse; jerboa’, viz. Akkadian akbartu-, Phoenician ˁkbrt and Syriac ˁuḳbartā. It seems more plausible that this is the source of Hitt. kapart-/kapirt-.
AB - The Hittite doublet kapart-/kapirt-, designating a small rodent, is currently assumed to continue an Indo-European formation. Hittitologists almost unanimously analyze it as an ablauting t-stem coined from the preverb *ko(m)- ‘together’ and the Indo-European root *bʰer- ‘to carry’, i. e. *ko(m)-bʰēr-t- or *ko(m)- bʰr̥-t. Accordingly, the meaning ‘small rodent’ is explained as having developed from ‘collector’ or ‘hoarder’. It appears that there is a good alternative to this etymology, however, as the Semitic languages offer evidence for a feminine t-stem to the root *ˁkbr- meaning ‘mouse; jerboa’, viz. Akkadian akbartu-, Phoenician ˁkbrt and Syriac ˁuḳbartā. It seems more plausible that this is the source of Hitt. kapart-/kapirt-.
U2 - 10.1515/if-2016-0003
DO - 10.1515/if-2016-0003
M3 - Journal article
VL - 121
SP - 53
EP - 62
JO - Indogermanische Forschungen
JF - Indogermanische Forschungen
SN - 0019-7262
IS - 1
ER -
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