Celtic "deer"
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Études celtiques |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | Celtic; insular; continental; zoonym; word formation; semantic typology |
| Description | In the present contribution the Insular Celtic designation of "deer", namely Middle Irish sed & seg, and Middle Welsh hit, hyd "stag, deer", Modern Welsh hydd m., pl. hyddot id.; Cornish heth; Old Breton hed "deer, fallow deer", Middle Breton heiz m. "deer", is studied from the point of view of both the internal structure in word formation and hypothetical continental cognates in onomastics, all in perspective of semantic typology. |
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