Professional paper

Croatian-Slavic dictionary of false friends

Kristian Lewis ; Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, Zagreb

Abstract

The paper deals with the phenomenon of false friends in Slavic languages. In the beginning terminological variety is discussed (Slavic homonymy, pseudoanalogonymy vs. false friends) and later on some Croatian-Russian, Croatian-Ukrainian and Croatian-Slovenian examples are given. The author also comments on potential methods which could be used to produce quite interesting comparative Croatian-Slavic dictionary of false friends.

Keywords

false friends; meaning; Slavic languages; lexicography; comparative Slavic studies

Hrčak ID:

173208

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/173208

Publication date:

20.5.2002.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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