Original title: On two expressions of negative mental state (hatred, fear)
Authors: Nejedlý, Petr
Document type: Papers
Conference/Event: Etymological Symposium Brno 2014, Brno (CZ), 2014-09-09 / 2014-09-11
Year: 2015
Language: eng
Abstract: There is no indisputable recorded evidence of a fundamental non-negative form of the Old Church Slavic and Slavic verb nenaviděti (it is necessary to revise some opposite views in this respect). Later records of the verb naviděti can be, from the semantic point of view, explained rather as prefi xed derivatives of viděti. Nenaviděti had therefore in all likelihood originated as an artifi cially created denotation of an abstract concept based on the spheres of Christian doctrine. 2. As primarily Old Czech records indicate, the word family of the Slavic verb plašiti contains the IE root *pel-, the initial meaning of which is one of motion: 'chase, run aft er'. The sememe '(rapid/hasty) motion' needs to be considered as fundamental for already the earliest stages of Slavic languages; the sememe 'fright, fear' is – along with the corresponding intransitive verbs – secondary.
Keywords: etymology; Old Czech; reconstruction of the meaning; semantic development; Slavic languages
Project no.: GAP406/10/1153 (CEP)
Funding provider: GA ČR
Host item entry: Etymological research into Old Church Slavonic, ISBN 978-80-7422-381-5

Institution: Institute of the Czech Language AS ČR (web)
Document availability information: Fulltext is available at the institute of the Academy of Sciences.
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0255438

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