NAMES OF DROUGHT AND HOT WEATHER AND THE TERMINOLOGY OF THE WIND IN THE BELARUS FOLK SPEECH IN THE GRODNO REGION

• Authors: Ostrowski B.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Different names of drought and torrid and terminology of wind in Belorussian dialects of the areas around Grodno are discussed. In the article some lexical features of meteorological terminology precipitation such as 'drought', 'torrid' are considered with the attention to 'sultry weather' and 'muggy air'. The second part is focused on analysis of different kinds of winds. In this group there are the words that come from proto-Slavonic language and a lot of local dialectal derivatives although there are only few adopted words.

Keywords

EN

BELARUS LANGUAGE; METEOROLOGY

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
• Journal: Acta Baltico-Slavica
• Year: 2004
• Volume: 28
• Pages: 97-107
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Ostrowski B.

• B. Ostrowski, Instytut Slawistyki PAN, Pracownia Jezyka Praslowianskiego, al. Mickiewicza 31, 31-120 Kraków, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

04PLAAAA0018391