Auch Wörter altern. Phraseologisch isolierte Lexeme als Relikte älterer Sprachstufen

Authors

  • Mihai Crudu Universitatea din Bucureşti Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.62229/bbzg6-24/2

Keywords:

diachrony, Old High German, Middle High German, historisms, bound words

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze a special category of lexemes, i.e. the so called bound words. These are words that only live in phrasemes and that can not work independently, e.g. Bärendienst (in jemandem einen Bärendienst erweisen), dingfest (in jemanden dingfest machen), Freite (in auf die Freite gehen), Friedenspfeife (in mit jemandem die Friedenspfeife rauchen), gehupft (in gehupft wie gesprungen), Geratewohl (in aufs Geratewohl), Hungertuch (in am Hungertuch nagen) and many more. An important part of these words testifies to older stages of the language and therewith to disappeared cultures, mentalities, objects or similar. In this study I analyze such words and I follow – starting from the respective etymologies – the whole semantic and formal development of the bound words.

BBzG6_24-2

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Published

2024-11-22