title: Collective nouns denoting trees in the Scandinavian languages
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metadata.value: Habrajska, Grażyna
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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: 2021-02-04T11:51:03Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-02-04T11:51:03Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Habrajska G., Rychło M., Witczak K. T. Collective nouns denoting trees in the Scandinavian languages. Scandinavian Philology, 2020, vol. 18, issue 2, pp. 261–283.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2020.203
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/23423
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: T﻿his article discusses the collective names of trees used in the Scandinavian languages,
  as well as the formation process of similar collective names in Eastern and
  Western Germanic. It should be emphasized that the Northern Germanic languages
  used the suffix *-ijan for creating collective nouns which denote ‘a group of trees’, e. g.
  ON. birki n. coll. ‘birch forest’, Icel. birki ‘birch forest; birch’, Norw. birki ‘birch forest’,
  Swed. björke ‘birch forest, birch grove’ (< PG. *berkijan n. coll. ‘a group of birches, birch
  forest, birch grove’  PG. *berkō f. ‘birch, Betula’). The same suffix denoting collectivity
  and originating from the Proto-Indo-European language is also present as *-ьje
  in most Slavic languages, cf. Ru. dial. берéзье n. coll. ‘birch forest, birch twigs’; OPol.
  brzezie n. ‘birch grove or forest’; Cz. březí n. ‘small birch-grove’, also břízí n. ‘birch twigs,
  birch-wood’; Slovak brezie n. ‘small birch-forest, birch-grove’; SC. bre ̑ z je n. coll. ‘birch
  forest’, Sloven. brẹ̑ zje n. ‘id.’ (< PSl. *berzьje n. coll. ‘group of birches, birch forest, birchgrove’
   PSl. *bȅrza f. ‘birch, Betula’). Further possible traces of the same suffix can be
  found in the Baltic languages (cf. OPrus. pannean n. ‘mossy fen’ vs. Go. fani n. ‘mud’,
  OSax. feni n. ‘fen’) suggesting that the Proto-Indo-European collective suffix can be
  reconstructed as *-ii̯ o m (n. coll.). It seems probable that some northern Indo-European
  tribes used the derivative word *bhe r ̥h 2 ĝ i i̯ o m (n.) to denote ‘a group of birch trees’, especially
  ‘a birch grove’ or ‘a birch forest’.
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 2
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: archaism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: collectives
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Danish
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: etymology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Germanic-Slavic relations
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Indo-European languages
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Norwegian
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Old Norse
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Proto-Germanic
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Proto-Indo-European
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Proto-Slavic
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Scandinavian peoples
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Swedish language
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: tree names
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: wordformation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Collective nouns denoting trees in the Scandinavian languages
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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