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Four Words for “Earth” in the Poetic Edda and their Parallels in Old Germanic Languages
- Authors: Kazachkova A.D.1,2
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Affiliations:
- Moscow State Linguistic University
- Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Issue: No 11(905) (2025)
- Pages: 53-59
- Section: Linguistics
- URL: https://ogarev-online.ru/2542-2197/article/view/353922
- ID: 353922
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Abstract
The purpose of this study is to carefully analyse four words denoting earth in the Poetic Edda, including analysing from the perspective of etymology, and to examine whether they and their parallels have continuants (descendant words) in modern Scandinavian, English and German languages. The approaches used by the author are semasiological approach, contextual analysis and etymological analysis. The material of the research includes four Old Icelandic nouns: jörð, land, grund and bjöð. As a result, some typical contexts are found, in which these words are used in the eddic poems, as well as the conclusion about the preservation of the continuants of the analysed words and their Old Germanic cognates in modern Germanic languages is drawn.
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Anna Dmitrievna Kazachkova
Moscow State Linguistic University; Lomonosov Moscow State University
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Email: anna.kazachkova99@gmail.com
Lecturer at the Department of Scandinavian, Dutch and Finnish Languages, Moscow State Linguistic University; PhD Student at the Department of Germanic and Celtic Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University
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