The walking and the dead: a note on Gmc. *kwikwa- ‘alive’

• Daniel Kölligan ^[1]
  1. [1] Lehrstuhl für Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
• Localización: Historische Sprachforschung = Historical linguistics, ISSN 0935-3518, Vol. 133, Nº. 1, 2020, págs. 155-166
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The paper argues that the Proto-Germanic adjective *kwikwa- ‘alive’ is not related to PIE *gih3o-, as is usually assumed, but represents a reduplicated formation based on PIE *geh2- ‘take a step, walk’, i.e. *gi-gh2ó- ‘walking’ which was used metonymically in the meaning ‘alive’. A similar form may underly Vedic jágat- ‘world’, originally ‘all that moves’, if this is derived from *ge-gh2ét- of the type Skt. sravát- ‘stream’ (: srávati ‘flows’).