Václav Blažek

On the Position of Ubi within East Chadic

On the Position of Ubi within East Chadic In the article the position of a recently described East Chadic language Ubi is solved. For this aim the lexicostatistic method was used. Contrary to the classification proposed in Ethnologue16, Ubi and Mawa should be classified together with Sokoro and Barain and not together with Bidiya, Dangla, Migama, etc.

On the position of Gaulish within Celtic from the point of view of glottochronology

In the article the basic lexical data of Gaulish are collected and for the first time used for a glottochronological test to demonstrate the position of Gaulish within Celtic.

Artemis and her family

In the present contribution the main etymological attempts to explain the theonym Artemis are summarized and analyzed. With regard to vacillation in the root vocalism, already in the My¬cenaean records, and the dominance of worship of this goddess in Asia Minor, the hypothesis of non-Greek origin is to be preferred. Discussing the epithets mediated by ancient authors, it seems that most of them were transferred from Artemis’ brother Apollo. A new solution is based on her epithet Týkhe “Fortune” known especially from numismatic legends from various cities of Peloponnese, Lesbos, Asia Minor and Gerasa in North Jordan. The hypothetical primary compound *Ar-temi- would mean “giving omen” in Hurrian, where both components are attested and safely interpreted, and this type of personal name is very frequent.

Indo-European nominal o-stems and question of their origin

Abstract Václav Blažek. Indo-European nominal o-stems and question of their origin. The Poznań Society for the Advancement of Arts and Sciences, PL ISSN 0079-4740, pp. 7-16 In the article the most productive formation of the Indo-European nominal declension, the o-stems, are described and analyzed. Two competing interpretations are discussed. One of them is finally preferred with respect to external typological parallels.

Dagmar S. Wodtko, Britta Irslinger, Carolin Schneider. 2008. Nomina im Indogermanischen Lexikon.

Dagmar S. Wodtko, Britta Irslinger, Carolin Schneider. 2008. Nomina im Indogermanischen Lexikon.

Late Brythonic *uohiđo ‘daughter-in-law’

In the Brythonic languages a specific designation for ‘daughter-in-law’ is used: Welsh gwaudd, pl. gweuddau, gweuddon, Middle Welsh pl. (14th cent.) gwehydon, (15th cent.) gwehyddon (GPC 1602–03), Old Cornish guhit gl. ‘nurus’, Old Breton g … = ?*guhid gl. ‘nuro’ (Orléans glosses; see Fleuriot 1964, 172 after Stokes), Middle Breton (Catholicon) gouhezy gl ‘nurus’, Breton. gouhé, pl. gouhéïon, Vanetais gouéhé ‘bru, belle-fille, femme de fils’ (GIB 1007), [gwii], pl. gwii-jõ] (Hamp 1972–74, 293).