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SPONDE: Časopis za jezike, književnosti i kulture između dviju obala Jadrana / Rivista di lingue, letterature e culture tra le due sponde dell’Adriatico / A Journal of Languages, Literatures and Cultures between the two Adriatic coasts, Vol. 1 No. 2, 2022.

Preliminary communication

The Slavicisms borrowed from Croatian, Serbian and Slovenian into the North-Eastern Italian Dialects

Chiara Montinaro ; Università del Salento

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Abstract

This paper aims to identify the Slavic loanwords
borrowed from Croatian, Serbian, and Slovene into
the Italian language, starting with the etymology of
words from the three South Slavic languages under
consideration (in addition to the etymology recorded
in dictionaries under the general term Slavic). Secondly,
the paper focuses on the loanwords that correspond
with regionalisms (particularly the northeastern
ones), defining the transition from regional
Italian to standard Italian. The corpus data, obtained
mainly from GRADIT (2007) and Zingarelli (2021),
is considerable and, from a quantitative point of view,
most of the loanwords originated in Serbian and
Croatian language: 48 headwords in GRADIT alone,
predominantly labelled as technical words. The geographical
regions Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Veneto
figure prominently in the number of loanwords.
Therefore, words relating to history and politics are
more commonly of Serbian and Croatian origin
(technical words, to be more precise), while words
of Slovene origin are mostly found in the Friuli-Venezia
Giulia region and are predominantly (but not
exclusively) gastronyms; the Veneto region, however,
testifies to the Venetian-Croatian language contact.

Keywords

Slavicisms; Slovenian; Serbian; Croatian; north-eastern Italian dialect

Hrčak ID:

290708

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/290708

Publication date:

28.12.2022.

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