Original scientific paper

Common European Phrasemes in Croatian Found in B. Klaić’s Dictionary of Foreign Words

Maja Opašić orcid.org/0000-0003-4310-2835

Abstract

The paper discusses the status of common European phrasemes in Croatian found in various editions of B. Klaić’s Dictionary of Foreign Words. Common European phrasemes are defined as international phrasemes appearing in different European languages, with an identical meaning and a high degree of structural correspondence. These phrasemes tend to have a known common origin; however, there are also common European phrasemes with no confirmed source, i.e. it is not known from which language and text they originated and spread. This paper therefore aims to describe the status of common European phrasemes in B. Klaić’s Dictionary of Foreign Words, which contains valuable data on the origin of individual phrasemes, sayings, and proverbs. The Dictionary includes common European phrasemes that contain foreign proper names, foreign common nouns or foreign terms, or are translations from Latin and other languages. The Klaić’s Dictionary can serve as an important source for the study of phraseme origins, as a required starting point for a future etymological dictionary of Croatian phrasemes.

Keywords

Bratoljub Klaić; Dictionary of Foreign Words; common European phrasemes; Croatian language

Hrčak ID:

131492

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/131492

Publication date:

24.12.2014.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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