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The Indo-European dh-Determinative in Germanic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

W. P. Lehmann
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Abstract

[The IE dh-determinative effects a consistent modification of meaning in Germanic. Basically this is in nouns formed from transitive roots a past passive modification, in nouns formed from intransitive roots and in verbs a modification caused by previous action.]

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 18 , Issue 2-Part1: April-June , June 1942 , pp. 125 - 132
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Copyright © 1942 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 Per Persson, Studien zur Lehre von der Wurzelerweiterung und Wurzelvariation (WE) (Uppsala, 1891); Beiträge zur indogermanischen Wortforschung (Beitr.) 593–621 (Uppsala, 1912); M. Bloomfield, On the so-called root-determinatives in the Indo-European languages, IF 4.66–78 (1894).

2 W. Petersen, Suffixes, Determinatives, and Words, Lang. 4.7–17 (1928).

3 Used by Persson, WE, Beitr.

4 Used by E. Benveniste, Origines de la Formation des Noms en Indo-Européen (Orig.) 1.148 et passim (Paris, 1935).

5 Used by Brugmann, Gdr.2 2.1.11, 2.3.62.

6 Benveniste, Orig. 207–9.

7 This article is a revision of part of my doctoral dissertation (University of Wisconsin, 1941), which was written under the direction of Mr. Heffner and Mr. Twaddell. I am deeply indebted to them for their guidance and their many suggestions.

8 Beitr. 556 et passim; Brugmann, KVG 296–7; Gdr.2 2.1.10–5.

9 Beitr. 558, 559; also Brugmann, Gdr.2 2.3.62.

10 Benveniste, Orig. 189.

11 WP 2.486.

12 WP 2.643–6; Benveniste, Orig. 206.

13 WP 1.86–7.

14 WP 2.174, 159–61.

15 WP 2.284–90.

16 WP 1.148–9, 136–42; Persson, Beitr. 277 n. 2.

17 WP 2.652–3, 655–6.

18 WP 2.675–6, 668–70; S. Feist, Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der gotischen Sprache3 (F3) 443–4 (Leiden, 1939).

19 WP 1.16–7.

20 WP 1.283–4.

21 WP 2.135, 131–3.

22 WP 1.102–5.

23 WP 1.624–7.

24 WP 1.600–1.

25 WP 2.264–6, 270–1.

26 WP 2.294–5.

27 WP 2.672, 668–70; cf. also Fick, Vergleichendes Wörterbuch4 3.510 (Göttingen, 1909).

28 WP 1.220–3; Persson, Beitr. 9, 664; F. Kluge, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache11 (K11) 687 (Berlin, 1934).

29 WP 2.169, 273–7.

30 WP 1.603–4, 608–9.

31 WP 1.656–7, 605–6.

32 WP 1.442–3.

33 WP 2.546–51.

34 WP 1.392–7.

35 WP 1.69–75.

36 WP 2.707–8, 389–92, 715.

37 WP 2.643–6.

38 WP 1.219.

39 WP 1.289–90, 266–8; F3 213 mentions this etymology and another.

40 WP 1.408–9; F3 234.

41 WP 2.573–84; K11 478.

42 WP 1.477.

43 WP 1.694–6; Brugmann, IF 5.375–6 (1895).

44 WP 2.326, 323–4.

45 WP 1.308–9, 827; Benveniste, Orig. 188.

46 WP 2.351–6; K11 493.

47 WP 2.636–40.

48 Benveniste, Orig. 189.

49 Benveniste, Orig. 190.

50 H. Paul, Prinzipien der Sprachgeschichte5 218 ff. and Bibl. (Halle, 1920).

51 WP 1.442–3.

52 WP 2.348–9.

53 I intend to work out elsewhere the obvious implications of this article—the relation of the IE dh-determinative to the Germanic dental preterite formant.