Ti abstract

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In Indo-European linguistics , the term ti-abstraction refers to a verbal abstract that is formed by an extension to -ti . This extension is made up of the two determinatives t and i ( Hermann Hirt defines a determinative (cf. the sources) as a suffix , the meaning of which cannot be recognized or at least not immediately recognized). In a few cases, the formation of -ti can also denote a noun agentis . Verbal abstracts can (at least externally) be formed in a similar way to -tu , one then speaks of tu-abstractions. An extension of the -tu suffix is the -tūti suffix .

Examples

  • A German example is the word duty, which goes back to West Germanic * pleh-ti- .
  • Another similar German example is Flucht (from flies; this statement does not apply to fleeing from fleeing ).
  • An Indo-European example is * mn-ti- (sense, thought; note that the n is syllabic).
  • An ancient Indian example is gátis (walking, gait).
  • Greek examples are the abstractions on -σις (-sis), e.g. B. βάσις (básis; gait, step), τάξις (táxis; order, position).
  • A Latin example is hostis (enemy), which is an example of the rarer nouns agentis in this class.
  • Another example of a noun agentis is the Greek μάντις (mántis; seer, fortune teller).
  • An example of a tu abstract is the Latin fructus (use, yield; from it German fruit ).

swell

  • Walter Henzen : German word formation. 3. Edition. Tübingen 1965 (= collection of short grammars of Germanic dialects B; supplementary series. Volume 5).
  • Hermann Hirt : Indo-European grammar, III. Part, the noun. Heidelberg 1927, reprinted Cambridge University Press 2009; Pp. 127-128.
  • Gerhard Köbler : Indo-European-New High German and New High-German-Indo-European dictionary. Gießen-Lahn 1980, 2nd edition 1982, p. XXV.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kluge: Etymological dictionary of the German language. Berlin / Boston 2011, 25th edition, p. 699.
  2. ↑ Kluge: Etymological dictionary of the German language. Berlin / Boston 2011, 25th edition, p. 306.
  3. ↑ Kluge: Etymological dictionary of the German language. Berlin / Boston 2011, 25th edition, p. 321.