History of Arabisms in Old Ruthenian Language

• Authors: Konczak I.
• Languages of publication: RU

Abstracts

EN

This article deals with the history of the arabisms in the Old Ruthenian language. The process related with lexical loanwords from the Arabic language dates back to the beginning of the written word in the Eastern Slavic region. From 11th century until the end of the 17th century 97 loanwords of Arabic etymology got transited into the Old Ruthenian language. The most numerous group of loanwords is the religious lexis and, related to Islam, the administrative lexis. The analysis of loaned arabisms proved that while passing to the Old Ruthenian language at first and then to the Russian language, they underwent adaptation processes of different kind (phonetic, morphologic, semantic, etc.). The majority of the arabisms considered here enriched the vocabulary of the Old Ruthenian language and they function in the Russian language until the present day.

Keywords

EN

ARABISMS IN OLD RUTHENIAN LANGUAGE

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Rocznik Orientalistyczny
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 59
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 60-76
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Konczak I.

• I. Konczak, Uniwersytet Lódzki, Katedra Studiów Bliskowschodnich i Polnocnej Afryki, ul. A. Kaminskiego 27a, 90-219 Lódz, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA02565299