Where Boys, Girls and Children Come From

• Authors: Boris Hlebec
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The etymology of three very frequent English words child, girl and boy has been notoriously obscure because researchers have failed to pay attention to possible Slavic influence. This article is aimed at rectifying this major oversight by providing abundant evidence of both formal and semantic similarities between the English items and the corresponding Slavic ones and at establishing Scandinavian as an intermediary for girl and boy, no such connector being necessary for child.

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Studia Anglica Posnaniensia
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 2-3
• Pages: 59-68

Dates

published

2012-06-01

online

2013-03-27

Contributors

author

Boris Hlebec

• University of Belgrade

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10121-012-0004-x