Thoughts on the etymologies of enn and hinn in Nordic

IF 0.5 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Eric T. Lander
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Abstract

This contribution focuses on Stroh-Wollin’s (2020 in NJL) etymologies of the Nordic definite articles enn and hinn and contrastive hinn/hitt. While I do not contest her central claim that Old Icelandic enn and Mainland Scandinavian hinn have separate historical origins, I do argue that her etymologies should not be accepted over more conventional ones already present in the literature. First, the etymology of enn should, along traditional lines, be connected to Germanic cognates such as Gothic jain-, German jen-, and English yon (rather than derived from an ancient PIE *eno-).1 Furthermore, contrastive hinn/hitt and definite hinn/hit should be considered a doublet, both ultimately deriving from a distal/contrastive element (rather than the article having separate origins in an innovated Proto-Nordic proximal demonstrative).
北欧语中enn和hinn词源的思考
这篇文章的重点是Stroh Wollin(2020,NJL)对北欧定冠词enn和hinn以及对比hinn/hitt的词源。虽然我不反对她关于古冰岛enn和斯堪的纳维亚大陆hinn有不同历史起源的核心主张,但我确实认为,她的词源不应该被接受,而不是文献中已经存在的更传统的词源。首先,enn的词源应该按照传统的思路与日耳曼同源词联系起来,如Gothic jain-、German jen-和English yon(而不是源自古代的PIE*eno-),两者最终都源于远端/对比元素(而不是文章在创新的原北欧近端指示语中有单独的起源)。
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