Element Order in Old English and Old High German Translations

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Cichosz ◽  
Jerzy Gaszewski ◽  
Piotr Pęzik
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
Element Order ◽  
Old High German

The Old English Name of the S-Rune and “Sun” in Germanic

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas P. A. Simms
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
Old High German ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Medieval Manuscripts ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
Loan Word

The name of the Old Englishs-rune,sigil, as found in various medieval manuscripts, is puzzling, as it is the only Anglo-Saxon rune name that is etymologically a loan word. This article examines the variant spelling <sygil> found only in MSCodex Vindobonensis795, arguing that the spelling with <y> is a scribal interpolation. In addressing how an Old High German-speaking scribe might have come to make such an interpolation it is argued that the wordsugilfound in Continentalrunica abecedariaought to be considered an Old High German lexeme relevant to this discussion. A novel etymology for words for ‘sun’ in Germanic is presented, particularly for forms derived from thel-stem variants of the Proto-Indo-European heteroclite.

Urgermanisch *þe-na-z ‘Gefolgsmann’

2000 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-299
Author(s):  
Stefan Zimmer
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
Old Norse ◽  
Old High German ◽  
Technical Term ◽  
Old Saxon

Proto-Germanic *þe-na-z (Old English, Old Saxon, Old High German, Old Norse) is traditionally understood as ‘child, follower, servant’, connected with Greek teknon ‘child’, both from *tek- ‘to beget’.This is unfounded; the meaning ‘child’ is unattested, the traditional etymology highly improbable. Proto-Germanic *þe-na-z is from *tek- ‘to stretch out one's hand, touch, receive’, designating basically ‘follower, retainer’, thus a technical term of Germanic Gefolgschaftswesen. Pertinent textual passages, the theory of Germanic heathen baptism, and the rites whereby a warrior is accepted into a lord's retinue are crucial for the analysis.

Markers of Futurity in Old High German and Old English

2013 ◽  
pp. 195-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriele Diewald ◽  
Ilse Wischer
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
Old High German

scholarly journals Distribution of Word Classes in Old English and Old High German: a Preliminary Contrastive Study Based on „The Battle of Maldon”, „Hildebrandslied” and „Ludwigslied”

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 135-146
Author(s):  
Anna Kamińska
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Old High German ◽  
Parts Of Speech ◽  
Comparable Corpora ◽  
West Germanic ◽  
Contrastive Study ◽  
The Battle Of Maldon ◽  
Quantitative Basis ◽  
Germanic Languages

This paper presents an example of a historical study based on comparable corpora. It aims to analyse and compare the distribution of different parts of speech in Old English and Old High German, thus providing a quantitative basis for further conclusions concerning different patterns of the development of those two West-Germanic languages. A particular attention has been devoted to the frequencies of prepositions and pronouns, as there are considerable differences between the languages in this respect. In addition, the article is a an attempt to show the importance and relevance of computational data for contrastive historical linguistics and their role in supporting or disproving traditional theories.

Meta-Tatian

2020 ◽  
Vol 125 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-134
Author(s):  
Elliott Evans
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
Old High German ◽  
Traditional School ◽  
German Translation ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Germanic Languages ◽  
Case Number ◽  
Attributive Adjectives

AbstractIn addition to inflecting adjectives for case, number, and gender, the early Germanic languages inflect adjectives as either strong or weak. Scholarly consensus is lacking regarding what triggers this fourth inflectional category, i.e. why an adjective surfaces as either strong or weak. While the traditional school of thought held that weak adjectives surface with definite determiners, some recent scholarship has argued that a semantic force such as definiteness or classification is responsible. To evaluate the two positions, I compared attributive adjectives in the Old High German translation of Tatian’s Diatessaron with the corresponding passages in Gothic and Old English. The conclusion supports the traditional school of thought that determiners trigger weak adjectives and refutes the idea that semantics is primarily responsible for whether an adjective surfaces as strong or weak.

The Formation of Old High German diorna, Old Saxon thiorna, Gothic widuwairna, and Old English niwerne

1942 ◽  
Vol 57 (6) ◽  
pp. 432
Author(s):  
Fritz Mezger
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
Old High German ◽  
Old Saxon
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