Murmur, heat and bonds – on some words of magic and healing
Please always quote using this URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-250976
- The paper argues that a) Germanic *tauf/ƀra- (Germ. Zauber, etc.) is related to a root PIE *deu̯p- ‘beat; make a hollow sound, resound’ found in Greek δοῦπος ‘thud’, etc., b) Greek φάρμακον goes back to the root PIE *gʷʰer- ‘heat’ (Gk. θερμός, etc.) implying healing by fomentation, and c) Armenian hiwand ‘sick’, borrowed from Iranian, to PIE *sh₂ei̯- ‘bind’ relying on the notion of disease as a supernatural bond.
Author: | Daniel Kölligan |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-250976 |
Document Type: | Journal article |
Faculties: | Philosophische Fakultät (Histor., philolog., Kultur- und geograph. Wissensch.) / Institut für Altertumswissenschaften |
Language: | English |
Parent Title (English): | Indogermanische Forschungen |
ISSN: | 1613-0405 |
ISSN: | 0019-7262 |
Year of Completion: | 2021 |
Volume: | 126 |
Issue: | 1 |
First Page: | 107 |
Last Page: | 134 |
Source: | Indogermanische Forschungen (2021) 126:1, 107-134. https://doi.org/10.1515/if-2021-006 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1515/if-2021-006 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 412 Etymologie |
Tag: | disease; etymology; healing; lexicon; magic; spell |
Release Date: | 2022/03/22 |
Date of first Publication: | 2021/12/10 |
Note: | This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively. |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |