Stifter, David
(2006)
A Note on the
Research History of the Insular Celtic t-Preterite.
KELTISCHE FORSCHUNGEN, 1.
p. 189.
Abstract
The explanation of the Insular Celtic t-preterite as continuing an earlier athematic 3rd sg. s-aorist was not first announced – as is widely held – by Heinrich
Zimmer 1890 (‘Keltische studien. 1. Exkurs. Das sogenannte t-präteritum der
keltischen sprachen’, Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung 30 (1890),
198–217; actually, for Zimmer the starting point was the 3rd sg. middle of the
s-aorist), but the idea is already mentioned in a sketch among the notes of Rudolf Thomas Siegfried, edited after his death by Whitley Stokes and published
1867 under the title ‘Miscellanea Celtica, by the Late R. T. Siegfried. Collected, Arranged, and Edited by Whitley Stokes’, Transactions of the Philologi‑
cal Society 1867, 252–300 (re-edited in German as: ‘Miscellanea Celtica, von
dem verstorbenen R. T. Siegfried. Gesammelt, geordnet und herausgegeben
von Whitley Stokes’, vol. 6 of Adalbert Kuhn’s Beiträge zur vergleichenden
Sprachforschung auf dem Gebiete der arischen, celtischen und slawischen
Sprachen, 1870, 1–18); the entry on p. 296 goes:
“S is lost between R and T: Ir. tart = [Goth. thaúrstei], Eng. thirst, TARSTI
[Skr. tṛsh. So perhaps the Irish preterite ru-burt ‘tuli,’ from] *ruburṡt, the
Welsh kymerth [from *kym-ber-ṡt].”
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Article
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| Keywords: |
Note;
Research History; Insular Celtic t-Preterite; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Arts & Humanities > School of Celtic Studies > Early Irish (Sean Ghaeilge) |
| Item ID: |
13015 |
| Depositing User: |
Prof. David Stifter
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| Date Deposited: |
04 Jun 2020 10:27 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
KELTISCHE FORSCHUNGEN |
| Publisher: |
Praesens Verlag. |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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