IE. *bhrā́tēr "brother"

Indogermanische Forschungen

Volumn 101, Issue , 1996, Pages 96-106

  Pârvulescu, Adrian ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

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References (8)

1. See more on it in J. Gonda, "GK. ADELPHOS", Mnemosyne 15 (1962), p. 390-392 = Selected Studies, vol. 1, Leiden 1975, p. 450.
2. V. I. Abaev, Istoriko-etimologičeskij slovar' osetinskogo jazyka I, Moskva-Leningrad 1958, p. 205-206.
3. E. Fraenkel, Litauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, Heidelberg 2, 1962-1965, p. 683.
4. Other Iranian forms in Abaev, op. cit. 2, p. 438. For an excellent discussion of the semantics of the entire group, with a special look at Gk. φράτηρ, see E. Benveniste, Indo-European Language and Society. London 1973, p. 172-173.
5. B. Delbrück, Die indogermanischen Verwandtschaftsnamen, Leipzig 1899, p. 84-87.
6. See interesting comments in E. Benveniste, Noms d'agent et noms d'action en indo-européen. Paris 1948, p. 14.
7. Vocombining ogonekluspá 2 (ed. B. Sijmons): Ek man jocombining ogonektna ár um borna, pás foroom mik foedda hocombining ogonekfoo "I remember the Jötuns (Giants) born of old, those who have raised me long ago" (Transl. Blackwell). See H. Gering, Vollständiges Wörterbuch zu den Liedern der Edda. Halle 1905, p. 98-99.
8. I do not know to what extent an IE. bra- "to carry; give birth" mentioned by N. M. Šanskij (Etimologičeskij slovar' russkogo jazyka, Moscow 1965, vol. 1.2, p. 190), who cites N. V. Gorjaev (Opyt sravnitel'nogo etimologičeskogo slovarja literaturnogo jazyka. Tiflis 1892, p. 12) goes along the lines of this article.