Abstract (eng)
This thesis analyses (Proto-)Indo-European nouns of the type R-o. After introducing the various forms (with full-grade or zero-grade in the root) and functions (abstract nouns, active/passive adnominals) of primary and secondary simple thematic nouns, the Tocharian B evidence is summarised and compared to the (Proto-)Indo-European forms and functions. As a first, Adams’s newly revised dictionary (DTB³) was consulted for this thesis, and new Tocharian lexemes were sought out and collected in a database. This data was then codified and sorted and, in a first effort, etymologised under the light of possibly hidden R-o formations. New minimal pairs are shown, and in light of this, the discussion on the origin of R-o formations is reintroduced. R-o formations share some morphological and semantic similarities to root nouns. Through an updated view of the Nussbaum-Schindler model of root nouns (Nussbaum 2004), R-o formations may be explained as primary derivatives from roots, thematised forms beside former root nouns, and as possessive derivations depending on their formation (i.e., their ablaut grade in the root). Thus, the productivity of R-o and the disappearance of root nouns can be better explained.