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A Neglected Heteroclitic Noun

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Alphonse A. Nehring
Alphonse A. Nehring*
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Marquette University
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It is for good reasons that the IE heteroclitic nouns, that is, the type Skt. yakr̥t, gen. yaknáḥ, Gk. η̇̑παρ: ἤπατος, Lat. iecur: iecinis (cf. iecinoris), arouse the special interest of linguists. Scholars have discussed the origin of this puzzling category of words, and have tried to enlarge the number of heteroclitic paradigms. The methodological aspect of these attempts, it seems to me, needs a closer examination; but here I want only to point out a case which might be added to the list of heteroclitic words.

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Language , Volume 16 , Issue 1-Part1: January-March , March 1940, pp. 1 - 11
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Copyright © 1940 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 See, e. g., H. Petersson, Studien über die idg. Heteroklisie (Lund, 1921); Zur Kenntnis der idg. Heteroklisie, in Lunds Univ. Årsskrift, N.S., Avd. 1, 18.7; E. Benveniste, Origines de la formation des noms en indo-européen (Paris, 1935).

2 The god of the day-sky, too, is older than the sun-god. On the other hand, the Persians still worshiped the dome of the sky in historical times; cf. Her. 1.131: οἱ νομίζουσι Διί . . . . .

3 See also J. Wackernagel and A. Debrunner, Altindische Grammatik 3.221-2 (Goettingen, 1929).

4 See J. F. Lohmann, ZSlPh. 7.372 ff.

5 Glotta 14.300 ff.

6 See J. Friedrich in Hirt Festschrift 2.222-3 (Heidelberg, 1936).

7 loc. cit.

8 Glotta 14.298-9.

9 See below.

10 Griechische Götter im alten Rom 10 ff., 27-8.

11 Der Name der Dioskuren im Etruskischen, in Studi Etruschi 5.368-9.

12 See for more examples G. Herbig, Kleinasiatisch-etruskische Namengleichungen, in SBBayrAW, phil.-hist. Kl. 1914, 2nd article.

13 See E. Fiesel, Das grammatische Geschlecht im Etruskischen 58 ff. (Goettingen, 1922).

14 Stolz-Leumann 279.

15 See Stolz-Leumann 222, 279.

16 Glotta 14.309.

17 Studien zur albanischen Wortforschung, 1, in Acta et Commentationes Universitatis Dorpatensis 1.1, 1921, Nr. 10.

18 See Walde-Hofmann, Lat. etym. Wörterbuch 350.

19 ZONF 8.154 ff.

20 In Walde-Hofmann, 1. c.

21 See Walde-Pokorny 1.774.

22 See Brugmann, Grundriss 22.1.264; Walde-Pokorny, loc. cit.

23 KZ 2.367.

24 See Walde-Pokorny 1.769 ff.

25 Stolz-Leumann 222.