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Towards an Evidence-based Approach to Reconstructing ēode
Martin, Robert ; Čermák, Jan (advisor) ; Bičovský, Jan (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to review the generally accepted analysis of the origins of the Old English ēode, the suppletive preterite of the verb gān "to go", and its relation to iddja, its Gothic equivalent. For a central and also unifying approach, the paper turns to Warren Cowgill's article (1960) as well as a section in Seebold's etymological dictionary Vergleichendes und etymologisches Wörterbuch der germanischen starken Verben (1960). The second chapter includes a summary of the behaviour of both verb's paradigms in both languages, in addition to relevant information about the languages themselves. It then discusses the etymologies of the source verbs, requisite morphological theory, and several key concepts of Indo-European linguistics. The second chapter concludes with a summary of Cowgill's and Seebold's reconstructions themselves, which are, in the third chapter, followed by a criticism of both approaches, with regards to their less explicitly stated assumptions especially. The chapter addresses instances where the notion of formal inadequacy is applied, then turns to the morphological phenomenon of hypercharacterization, and finally takes stock of the impact of the asymmetry in the approaches taken to both cognates. In the fourth chapter, a survey of the development in the paradigms of...
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