Hrvatski dijalektološki zbornik, No. 8, 1989.
Conference paper
DIALECT VOCABULARY IN THE RECONSTRUCTION OF PRESLAVONIC LEXICAL ITEMS
Wladysiaw Sedzik
Abstract
In the article the effort has been made to give regard to the
dialect word-formation for etymological research and particularly for
archaic form (having in many cases a relict character) the lexical
material hidden in various dialects is very often the only basis for
the reconstruction of a given lexical item and considering it as a
preslavonic one in view of tis morphological structure and meaning.
As material illustrating the correctness of some of the methods of
preslavonic reconstruction the author has made use mainly of data
from the Croat-Serbian dialects (e. g. celo "the period of time ofabout 12 hours'; diirrnan 'a plant having very strong, stupefying smell;
stupefacient; a poisoning plant, Cicuta virosa'; dCrzma 'madness; frenzy;
rage, fury; folly; trantrums'). In other instances making no doubts
as to the preslavonic origin of a given lexem (as in drm 'turf, grass,
a lawn'; drt-b 'torn'; dftb 'teraring, breaking, something which is
crumbled, e. g. filings, bran'; drtina 'something broken up, separated
from the whole; a piece, a bit' in relation to southslavonic semantic
specialization 'a man who is weak, old, decrepit a weak, awkward animal')
it has been pointed out that these continuants have remained
in rudimentary form or even absent in the Croat-Serbian dialects and
generally in the southslavonic language group.
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Hrčak ID:
202477
URI
Publication date:
13.3.1989.
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