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GOTHIC SUBSTANTIVES DENOTING ELEMENTAL NATURAL PHENOMENA // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2010. Issue 7 (97). P. 39-43

The words denoting natural phenomena are analysed in the paper. They are all marked by consonantal stembuilding suffixes. Naturally they are formed from active verbs. The analyzed words were accepted as active/animate by ancient Germans which is supported by the data of history and culture.

Keywords: natural phenomena, marking, stem-building suffixes, activity, etymology, ancient Germans

NOUNS DENOTING METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA IN GOTHIC AND THEIR COLOURING WITH STEM-BUILDING FORMANTS // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2011. Issue 9 (111). P. 9-15

The words denoting meteorological phenomena are analysed in the paper. Some words are marked by consonantal stem-building suffixes which indicated active/animate nouns in Proto-Indoeuropean. A lot of these words belong to a vowel declension in Gothic that is connected with the change of the attitude to the world and the loss of an animate meaning. Despite this, etymological, morphological and lexico-semantic analysis proves that the words of this lexicosemantic group related to the active class in the past and meteorological/ atmospheric phenomena were accepted as animate by ancient Indo-Europeans.

Keywords: Meteorological phenomena, stem-building suffixes, lexico-semantic combinatory, activity/animateness, ancient Germans