title: Soot in the Saami and Germanic languages
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Witczak, Krzysztof Tomasz
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Rychło, Mikołaj
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-01-31T11:51:48Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-01-31T11:51:48Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Witczak K. T., Rychło M. Soot in the Saami and Germanic languages. Scandinavian Philology, 2022, vol. 20, issue 2, pp. 269–287.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2022.203
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38925
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: This paper examines the Scandinavian terminology for ‘soot’ in connection with
  a number of Saami appellatives with a view to deciding which of them are native and
  which result from borrowing. Special attention is paid to the problem of adopting
  loanwords in Northern Europe, especially in the Scandinavian Peninsula. Two Proto-
  Germanic words denoting ‘soot’ are discussed from the morphological and etymological
  point of view. It is suggested that the West Germanic noun *hrōta- m./n. ‘soot’ is
  closely related to PG. *sōta- n. ‘soot’, which, in turn, is derived from the Proto-Indo-
  European verbal root *sed- ‘to sit’. The present authors intend to demonstrate that WG.
  *hrōta- derives from the Indo-European archetype *ku̯u-sōdo- ‘bad soot; thick layer of
  soot’, originally ‘what a soot!’. The original semantic distinction between PG. *sōta- and
  WG. *hrōta- seems to be preserved in the use of two independent Saamic loanwords,
  cf. Saa.N suohtti ‘soot (in the chimney)’ and ruohtti ‘big layer of soot’. The remaining
  Northern Saami words under analysis include čađđa ‘charcoal, soot’ (< Proto-Saamic
  *će̮δe̮ ‘carbon, charcoal, soot, grime’ < Ur. *ćüδ́i ‘coal, charcoal’), giehpa ‘soot’ (< PSaa.
  *kēpe̮ ‘id.’, probably a Proto-Baltic loanword) and gožu ~ gohčču- ‘soot, layer of soot,
  deposit of smoke or soot on things near a fireplace’ (< PSaa. *kočɔ̄j ‘soot’). Establishing
  the etymologies of this rich Saami terminology concerning ‘soot’ is significant to the gradual change of Saami lifestyle from a nomadic hunter-gatherer one towards a nonperipatetic
  community reliant on farming, animal husbandry and fishing.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The present article is part of a research project entitled Prehistoric Contacts between
  Indo-European and Uralic, financed by the scholarly development fund of the
  Faculty of Philology, University of Lodz.
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 20; Issue 2
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: diachronic morphology
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: Indo-European languages
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: language contact
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: lexical borrowings
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-Uralic
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Saami
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Scandivanian peoples
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Swedish
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: word-formation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Soot in the Saami and Germanic languages
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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