On Etymology of Proto-Slavic Word for ‘Wound’

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_7515
dc.title	On Etymology of Proto-Slavic Word for ‘Wound’
dc.contributor.author	Trofimov Artem
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	ru
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/balcania-et-slavia/2021/2/k-etimologii-praslavianskogo-oboznacheniia-rany/
dc.description.abstract	The paper is devoted to a critical analysis of the traditional etymology of the Proto-Slavic word with the meaning ‘wound’ (OCS ‘рана’ πληγή, μάστιξ; Bulgarian ‘ра́на’; Serbocroatian ‘ра̏на’, Russian ‘рана’ etc.). Researchers usually compare it to OInd. vraṇá- ‘wound, ulcer’ and Alb. varrë ‘wound’. It is demonstrated that this etymology is unacceptable from a formal point of view. Therefore, it is proposed to return to the idea of P. Persson who connected the Proto-Slavic ‘wound’ to the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂erH- ‘to destroy’ and the following cognates in other branches of PIE: Hett. ḫarrai ‘grinds’; Toch. AB ār, pret. B āra ‘to stop, to cease’ and Proto-Slavic *oriti ‘to destroy, to ruin’. In this case the Proto-Slavic reconstruction is *őrna.
dc.relation.ispartof	Balcania et Slavia
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 1 \| Issue 2 \| December 2021
dc.issued	2022-02-15
dc.dateAccepted	2022-01-11
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-12-11
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2785-3187
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/BES/0/2021/02/004
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Albanian
dc.subject	Cognate
dc.subject	Etymology
dc.subject	Old Indian
dc.subject	Proto-Slavic
dc.subject	Schwebeablaut

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Artem Trofimov RANEPA (The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration)

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abstract

The paper is devoted to a critical analysis of the traditional etymology of the Proto-Slavic word with the meaning ‘wound’ (OCS ‘рана’ πληγή, μάστιξ; Bulgarian ‘ра́на’; Serbocroatian ‘ра̏на’, Russian ‘рана’ etc.). Researchers usually compare it to OInd. vraṇá- ‘wound, ulcer’ and Alb. varrë ‘wound’. It is demonstrated that this etymology is unacceptable from a formal point of view. Therefore, it is proposed to return to the idea of P. Persson who connected the Proto-Slavic ‘wound’ to the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂erH- ‘to destroy’ and the following cognates in other branches of PIE: Hett. ḫarrai ‘grinds’; Toch. AB ār, pret. B āra ‘to stop, to cease’ and Proto-Slavic *oriti ‘to destroy, to ruin’. In this case the Proto-Slavic reconstruction is *őrna.

Published

Feb. 15, 2022

Accepted

Jan. 11, 2022

Submitted

Dec. 11, 2021

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Keywords: Old Indian • Cognate • Proto-Slavic • Schwebeablaut • Albanian • Etymology

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