Auch Wörter altern. Phraseologisch isolierte Lexeme als Relikte älterer Sprachstufen
Words also age. Phraseologically isolated lexemes as relics of older languages stages

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to analyze a special category of lexemes, i.e. the so called bound words. These are words that only live in phrasemes and that can not work independently, e.g. Bärendienst (in jemandem einen Bärendienst erweisen), dingfest (in jemanden dingfest machen), Freite (in auf die Freite gehen), Friedenspfeife (in mit jemandem die Friedenspfeife rauchen), gehupft (in gehupft wie gesprungen), Geratewohl (in aufs Geratewohl), Hungertuch (in am Hungertuch nagen) and many more. An important part of these words testifies to older stages of the language and therewith to disappeared cultures, mentalities, objects or similar. In this study I analyze such words and I follow – starting from the respective etymologies – the whole semantic and formal development of the bound words.

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