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Some Balto-Slavic Terms of Acoustic Perceptions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Francis Ralph Preveden
Francis Ralph Preveden*
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DePaul University
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[Through etymological analysis of some Balto-Slavic terms of acoustic perceptions, it was possible to offer a comparison of their semantic sources, and thus throw light on the origination of ideas, descriptive of our sense of hearing, both as to its function and content.]

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Language , Volume 8 , Issue 2-Part1 , June 1932, pp. 145 - 151
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Copyright © 1932 Linguistic Society of America

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1 Cf. Walde-Pokorny, Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der indogermanischen Sprachen 1. 494f, with refs.; Trautmann, Baltisch-Slavisches Wörterbuch 307ff; Brückner, Słownik Etymologiczny Jezyka Polskiego 501f; Mühlenbach-Endzelin, Latviešu valodas vārdnīca 3. 920.

2 See Trautmann, BSW 308; Brückner, SEJP 502; Walde-Pokorny VWIS 1. 495.

3 See Berneker, Slavisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 517f, 522f; Brückner, SEJP 232f, 238, 500; Walde-Pokorny, VWIS 1. 331f, 409, 425, 457, 495, 608, 610, 611, 622f, 624ff.

4 The etymologists are divided over the exact membership of the group, but they all agree on the sound-imitating character of the root-forms. Cf. Fick, Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der indogermanischen Sprachen4 1. 35; Walde-Pokorny, VWIS 1. 537, 591ff, 605; Boisacq, Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque 103; Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine 393f; Leskien, Ablaut der Wurzelsilben im Litauischen 327; Berneker, SEW 323; Mühlenbach-Endzelin, LVV 1. 552.

5 See Bartholomae, Altiranisches Wörterbuch 485; Uhlenbeck, Kurzgefasstes etymologisches Wörterbuch der altindischen Sprache 85.

6 Cf. Walde-Pokorny, VWIS 1. 17f; Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 80; Ernout-Meillet, DÉLL 82.

7 See Meyer-Lübke, Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 7824.

8 See above Ital. sentire.

9 Cf. Fick, VWIS4 1. 35; Brückner, SEJP 144; Berneker, SEW 323; otherwise Leskien, Die Bildung der Nomina im Litauischen 595; Ernout-Meillet, DÉLL 393f.

10 Cf. Trautmann, BSW 25; Leskien, BNL 597; Fick, VWIS4 1. 92; Walde-Pokorny, VWIS 2. 182.

11 See Berneker, SEW 323; Brückner, SEJP 144; Trautmann, BSW 77; Walde-Pokorny, VWIS 1. 538.

12 Cf. Brückner, SEW 114; Trautmann BSW 374; Walde-Pokorny, VWIS 1. 642, with refs.

13 Cf. Mühlenbach-Endzelin, LVV 3. 871f; Brückner, SEJP 543; Miklošić, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der slavischen Sprachen 342.

14 See Walde, Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch2 421; Mühlenbach-Endzelin, LVV 2. 237; Trautmann, BSW 157; Kluge, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache10 301; Tiktin, Dictionar Român-German 782.

15 See Waide-Hofmann, LEW 137; Ernout-Meillet, DÉLL 129; Walde-Pokorny, VWIS 1. 429; Ernout-Meillet, DÉLL 780f; Walde, LEW2 620; Walde-Pokorny, VWIS 2. 88.

16 See W. Skeat, A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language 178.