K ETIMOLOGII BALTO-SLAVJANSKOGO *ŠAMA- SILURUS GLANIS

• Authors: Yurij Khramov

Title variants

EN

On etymology of Balto-Slavic *šama- ‘sheat-fish, Silurus glanis’

• Languages of publication: RU

Abstracts

EN

The article discusses the Balto-Slavic word *šama- ‘sheat-fish, Silurus glanis’ > Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian сом, Serbo-Croatian сȍ м, Slovenian sòm, Czech, Slovakian sumec, Polish sum, Low Sorbian som, Lithuanian šãmas, Latvian sams, which is problematic from the point of view of etymology. Giving an in depth analysis of previous hypotheses, the article suggests turning to the already known lexical material recorded in dictionaries. On semantic concretisation of the examples and drawing from the dialects of the Slavic and Baltic languages, the old etymology of this word (Proto-Indo- European *k’em- ‘stick, pole, horn’) becomes linguistically well-reasoned.

Keywords

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ETYMOLOGY; SEMANTICS; BALTIC LANGUAGES; SLAVIC LANGUAGES

• Publisher: Jan Stanislav Slavonic Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Matica Slovenska
• Journal: Slavica Slovaca
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 156 - 160

Contributors

author

Yurij Khramov

• Reading, England, UK