The lexical field “movement in ether” in ancient Indo-Aryan

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Keywords: movement; ether; “to fly”; “to fall”; Ancient Indo-Aryan; Vedic; Middle Indo-Aryan; New Indo-Aryan; stem; causative; derivative

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Zakharyin B.A. The lexical field “movement in ether” in ancient Indo-Aryan. // Lomonosov Oriental Studies Journal. 2018. N 3, p.3–15

Zakharyin B.A. (Lomonosov Moscow State University)

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the lexical-semantic and grammatical characteristics of the two main components of the field “movement in ether” – namely, the verbs pát- “to fly; to fall” and dī-/ḍī- “to fly”. The main basis for the analysis was the hymns of the Rigveda; language data from texts in Middle Indo-Aryan and New Indo-Aryan were also used. The dynamics of the semantic and formal transformations of the verbs mentioned and of their derivatives, correlating with their functioning at different phases of the evolution of Indo-Aryan, was demonstrated.