Summaries of Periodicals: Literature and General

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1. HEFT. O. Hoffmann argues that Weichbild (wikbilede) originally denoted a wooden or stone sign set up in a wik (village where traders live, market-place) to denote the possession of the ius mercatum constituendi. Hence it came to denote the privilege itself and finally the community possessing this right. H. Hendriksen connects cura with Sk. śeṣaḥ ‘remainder’, the basic meaning being ‘leaving over, saving up’, hence ‘watch, care’. The root *keis *kois he also finds in κίστη. *keis is an extended form of *kei and = ‘leave lying’. lētum is connected with latere, a semantic parallel being Mid. Ir. cel ‘death’, Lat. celare. Lith. kišù, kìšti further is derived from *keis, although the exceptional treatment of the palatal is difficult to account for. Sk. ślakṣṇáḥ ‘slippery, soft, fine, delicate’ is derived from *slēg seen in λήγω, λαγαρός. E. Lewy writes on (1) a-priori construction of speech types, (2) primitive I-E. inflection, (3) Sakian miscellany. He (4) connects idus via Etruscan with the Sumerian itu ‘month’, (5) discusses the sound -tsch- in Mod. Germ., and (6) connects Gabel with geben.