Conceptual Metonymy as a Process of Polysemic Extension: ‘Repugnance’ and ‘Flight’ in Hittite

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to reconsider (expanding and deepening with new data the ideas presented in Pozza 2021) a Hittite etymology to corroborate the hypothesis initially put forward by Kronasser (1952-1953) with the help of the theoretical framework of cognitive linguistics. The specific analysis of the verb pukk-, pugga- ‘to be repugnant, hateful’, therefore, will be carried out both under a new interpretation of the original PIE root and in the light of the theoretical issues connected explicitly with conceptual metonymy, capable of motivating semantic change.