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ROMANISMS IN LEXICAL ITEMS RELATED TO HOME AND HOUSE LOT IN SW ISTRIAN OR STOKAVIAN-CHAKAVIAN DIALECT
Lina Pliško
; Universiti Juraj Dobrila, Pula, Croatia
Abstract
The paper points out the Romanisms, taken from the semantic fields such as home and house lot, we have collected at nine dialectological points located in nine municipalities or towns in the south-western part of Istria. Taking into account the total of 82 lexical items, we can say that 48 of them are of Romanic origin (47.5%). These can be divided into several semantic sub-fields: 1. objects around the fireplace (5 out of 17 – 29.4% - are of Romanic origin); 2. dishes (15 out of 29 – 51.7%); 3. kitchen and home appliances (5 out of 6 – 83.3%); 4. furniture and objects in bedrooms (9 out of 9 – 100%); 5. home and house lot (11 out of 21 – 52,3%).
The registered Romanisms are equally present at all the dialectological points and have been confirmed by the dictionaries we consulted, meaning that these are still actively used in the chakavian local speeches from Istria to Dalmatia as well as in the Venetian dialects spoken in the Italian region Venezia Friuli.
Keywords
SW Istrian or stokavian-chakavian dialect; Romanisms; fireplace; dishes; home appliances; furniture; house and house plot
Hrčak ID:
52869
URI
Publication date:
27.11.2009.
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