Prefixal S in Germanic, Together With the Etymologies of Fratze, Schraube, Guter Dinge

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Excerpt from Prefixal S in Germanic, Together With the Etymologies of Fratze, Schraube, Guter Dinge: A Dissertation Submitted to the Board of University Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in Conformity With the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy It is an accepted fact that many Ide. words whose kinship is evident by form and meaning show doublets, appearing now with, now without, initial s. Step by step it has been shown that these parallel forms, with and without initial s, co-existed in the original language, that the law of sandhi does not suffice to explain either the presence, or the absence, of s, but that this s has, rather, prefixal function, and is, possibly, of intensive value. Important contributions were also made by Johansson, who proved that "s + guttural + l, m, n have been simplified to s + l, m, n, both in Ide., and in the separate languages, " and recently by Siebs, who formulates the law: "If the root begins with Ide. media, the parallel s-form begins with Ide. s + corresponding tenuis, if the root begins with Ide. media aspirata, the parallel s-form begins with Ide. s + tenuis or tenuis aspirata." This definitive formulation, of probably the most far-reaching principle, in point of extensive results in etymology, has been generally accepted, as far as we can see. Independently, Schroeder arrived at similar conclusions. Though anticipated in its main results, his article is of value because of the additional proof offered by dialectical material, unfortunately rather unsifted, that Germanic, at every period, independently added or dropped the movable s, furthermore, because of the juxtaposition of parallel forms with initial w, challenging thus the explanation of this phenomenon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.