Proto-Indo-European *sneigʷʰ- ‘to fall down; to snow’*

• Guus Kroonen ^[1] ; Andrew Wigman ^[1] ; Rasmus Thorsø ^[1]
  1. [1] Leiden University

     Leiden University

     Países Bajos

     
• Localización: Historische Sprachforschung = Historical linguistics, ISSN 0935-3518, Nº. 134, 2021, págs. 214-224
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In this paper we present a diachronically syntactic analysis of the PIE verbal root *sneigʷʰ-, arguing that it did not originally mean ‘to snow’, in the proto-language, but rather more primarily ‘to fall down’. Evidence from several Indo-European branches is evaluated and argued to support a scenario in which the former meaning arose from the latter in a so-called impersonal verbal construction.