The Semantics Of German Verb Prefixes PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...run); geriunen, jufammetmnneit (to run together, to curdle); teitcn (to conduct); gelcitett (to accompany); fyorett (to hear); gdjoren (to unite in hearing, i. e., when the master calls, hence, to belong to); fatten (to fall); gefattcit (to fall together, L e., as one would wish, hence, to please). 2. The sense is not discernible in many verbal forms, as gf is the weakest and most uncertain of all the particles as to its force and intention. In some forms its only intention seems to be to change the meaning of the stem: e. g., Imutcfyctt (to need); gcbraucfjen (to employ); bicten (to offer); ge= btcten (to command); ftefjen (to stand); gcftcfycn (to confess), where the nexus is lost. In other forma jje has entirely lost all force, as in gcbeifjeit (to thrive), gencjen (to recover), geniefeen (to enjoy). Compare with this weakness of ge its omission (as 68 (vie. of no importance) in getoorben in the formation of the passive voice, and compare fommen, etc., for gefommcn, etc., in colloquial style or in the dialects. In Anglo-Saxon gc could be prefixed to any part of the verb without appreciably affecting the sense, ) and it seems to have vanished from nineteenth centuiy English entirely. 3. (c)( with nouns has many meanings, showing the uncertainty of its original signification, but the notion of companionship, union, is found in forms derived from verbal stems, and from a few nouns: e. g., (c)cfptclc (play-mate); (c)cfcifyrte (companion); (c)c= fji'tlfc (assistant); ($cfd)tttftcr (brothers and sisters). 4 The notion of union produces collective nouns: e. g., (c)cftraud), (c)eioaffcr, (c)cbiifd), (c)enwrm (shrubs, waters, bushes, worms). 5. The notion of being together may, from verbal stems (nearly al