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Prefix (hu) as a Cognate Morpheme in Old English and Avestan

Received: 28 May 2015     Accepted: 14 June 2015     Published: 17 June 2015
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This study is confirms the historical lexical correlation between Old English Germanic group and Indo – Iranian group with the insights of lexical theories and analyze the origin of cognate morphemes particularly, this prefix (hu). The present study consists of four sections: The first section introduces the aims, the method of this study as a comparative analysis, etymology and prefix as a part of derivational morphemes. Section two investigates the origin of two groups of Indo – European language family (IE) Viz. Germanic group and Indo – Iranian group, also comparing their daughter languages English language versus Kurdish language. Section three shows the origin of prefix (hu) as a similar morpheme between English and Kurdish languages, and giving examples as cognates between them and Avestan language. The last part is section four ; this section is about results and finally, the study points out some conclusions.

Published in International Journal of Language and Linguistics (Volume 3, Issue 4)
DOI 10.11648/j.ijll.20150304.17
Page(s) 239-243
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Keywords

Avestan, Old English, Cognate Morpheme

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  • Department of English, Basic Education, University of Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

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