Petit Daniel. Litauisch ganà ‚genug, es ist genug‘

Indogermanische Forschungen. — 2012. — Vol. 117. — 217-256 p.Abstract: Although the etymology of the Lithuanian adverb ganà ‘enough’ is well established in the scholarly literature (PIE root *gwhen- ‘to flourish, to be full, to swell’), its precise formation still remains obscure. It could be either (a) a thematic verb (‘it suffices’), reanalyzed as adverb, (b) a neutral adjective (‘it is abundant’), also used as adverb, or (c) a substantive (‘there is abundance, large quantity’), reanalyzed as adverb in predicative structures and then extended to other adverbial functions. The aim of this paper is to determine which of these three possibilities is the right one, through a thorough analysis of the syntactic structures in which the adverb ganà is used.
Keywords: Lithuanian, Latvian, Baltic, Indo-European, etymology, adverb, quantification, syntactic reanalysis