Original scientific paper

Words for potato in Slovenian and neighbouring Croatian dialects

Jožica Škofic orcid.org/0000-0003-3478-5056 ; Inštitut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU

Abstract

By method of linguistic geography, the article presents the words for the potato (Latinski Solanum Tuberosum) in Slovenian and neighbouring Croatian dialects. Etimologicaly analysed Slovenian dialectal lexems, collected for the Slovenian linguistic atlas (SLA), are compared with Croatian lexems, collected for Slavic linguistic atlas (OLA) and European linguistic atlas (ALE). The dialectal material is supplemented with data from scientific and belletristic literature and dictionaries.

Keywords

linguistic geography; Slovenian Linguistic Atlas; Croatian dialects; terms for potato

Hrčak ID:

148051

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/148051

Publication date:

14.7.2008.

Article data in other languages: slovenian

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