Ze staročeské "kuchyně" : k původu slova kuchař

• Authors: Štěpán Šimek

Title variants

EN

From the Old Czech "kitchen" : On the origin of the word kuchař

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article discusses the origin of the Old Czech word kuchař ‘cook’. The analysis suggests that the word was probably neither derived from the non-recorded Old Czech word *kuchati ‘to cook’, nor from the attested Old Czech verb kuchati ‘to eviscerate’. The semantic and wordformative analysis of the Old Czech word-formative group containing words based primarily on the lexical item kuchyně ‘cuisine’ shows that the word kuchař is most likely a loanword from Middle High German adapted to the Old Czech lexical system, specifically to the group of lexemes containing the suffix -ař (comp. Old Czech rychtář from Middle High German rihter etc.).

Keywords

CS

etymologie; kuchař; přejímka; slovotvorba; stará čeština; vývoj jazyka

EN

etymology; kuchař "cook"; loanword; language development; Old Czech; word formation

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Naše řeč (Our Speech)
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 100
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 312-321
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Štěpán Šimek

• Naše řeč, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic