title: Is Old Norse gammi an inherited or a borrowed word?
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metadata.value: Kowalski, Andrzej Piotr
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Rychło, Mikołaj
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Witczak, Krzysztof Tomasz
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-09-11T10:37:44Z
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metadata.value: 2020-09-11T10:37:44Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-03
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metadata.value: Kowalski A.P., Rychło M., Witczak K.T. Is Old Norse gammi an inherited or a borrowed word? Scandinavian Philology, 2020, vol.  18, issue  1, pp. 72–84.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2020.105
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/19420
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metadata.value: T﻿﻿he article discusses the uncertainty around the etymology and origin of the Old Norse
  gammi m. ‘Saami hut; earthen hut’, as well as its modern Scandinavian cognates, e. g. Icel.
  gammi m. ‘earthen hut’, Norw. gamme m. ‘id.’, Swed. dial. (Elfd.) gamme m. ‘porch; manger,
  cow manger’, Da. gamme c. ‘animal stall, sheepfold, fence, fencing’. The Northern Germanic
  terms are traditionally explained as an Indo-European heritage. There are three different
  competing etymologies for the Scandinavian words in question. The first explanation,
  proposed by two Norwegian linguists Hjalmar Seierstedt Falk (1859–1928) and Alf Torp
  (1853–1916), connects the Old Norse term for ‘earthen hut’ with the Indo-European term
  for ‘earth’ (PIE.*dhĝhom-). The second etymology, given by the Swedish researcher Evald
  Lidén (1862–1939), relates it to Arm. gom ‘cowshed, stable, sheepfold, pigsty’. He suggested
  a new Indo-European nominal root *ghom- ‘animal stall’ on the basis of the alleged
  comparison of the Germanic and Armenian forms. Twenty years ago, the Danish linguist
  Birgit Anette Olsen (born 1952)  reinterpreted Lidén’s proposal, deriving the GermanoArmenian lexemes from the Indo-European root *ghos- ‘to eat’ (cf. Old Indic ghas- ‘to eat’)
  and finally explaining the protoform *ghos-mo(n)- as a nomen loci denoting ‘eating place’.
  In our opinion, neither a derivation from PIE.*dhĝhom- ‘earth’, nor a comparison with Arm.
  gom ‘stable, stall, pigsty’ can be accepted for phonological, semantic, and cultural reasons.
  It is suggested that all the Scandinavian words should be treated as having been borrowed
  from North Saami gammi ‘earthen hut’. In fact, the aforementioned Nordic appellatives
  are completely isolated in the Germanic and Indo-European language world, whereas the Saami word in question has numerous cognates in the Finno-Ugric languages and derives
  from a Finno-Permic archetype *kȣmɜ ‘granary, pantry’, e. g. Fi. kumo ‘grain barn’, Ost. kȯ̆
  m
  ‘granary, pantry’.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 18; Issue 1
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: borrowings
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Danish
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Elfdalian dialect of Swedish
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: etymology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Finno-Ugric languages
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Germanic-Saami relations
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Icelandic
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Indo-European languages
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: language contacts
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Norway
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Old Norse
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Saami material culture
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Scandivanian peoples
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Uralic influence
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Is Old Norse gammi an inherited or a borrowed word?
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metadata.value: Article
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