Author: Roscoe Myrl Ihrig

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780260465573

Excerpt from The Semantic Development of Words for Walk, Run in the Germanic Languages As will be seen from the following study, 'walk, run' may come from many different meanings. These primary meanings describe the attitude or manner of the walker. Thus they may describe how he carries his body, Whether erect or stooping, stiff or swinging; how he moves his legs, whether striding or mincing, with leaps or in glides; whether his motions are graceful or ungainly, sturdy or feeble, prim or boisterous, etc. Every accompanying gesture is described. Thus arise the various words for 'go on foot, ' in most cases still retaining their descriptive force, but often, especially in the words that had in pre - Germanic come to mean 'go, ' no longer preserving the original meaning describing the man ner of the walking. Hence such words as go, fare, step, walk are now colorless; but stride, dash, slouch, slink, strut, swagger, reel, toddle, etc., describe the manner of the walk with more or less vividness. Inasmuch as the meanings of words shade off into various other meanings, related words may be classified in different groups. Thus 'swing, sway' may describe the walk of the feeble, the intoxicated, or the pompous. So some words appear in different groups. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.