Dobrodružství dialektologie: bur, burák, burášek, ořech, oříšek

• Authors: Stanislava Kloferová

Title variants

EN

Adventures in dialectology: bur, burák, burášek, ořech, oříšek

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The dialectal material database for the Dictionary of the Czech Language Dialects contains many expressions thus far not recorded in dictionaries. It is often only possible to assign them to a lexical item after a thorough dialectological and etymological analysis has been carried out. This is the case of the words bur, burák, burášek, ořech and oříšek denoting a kind of punishment or torture, involving the process of quickly grazing the back of someone else’s neck in an upward direction with the knuckles. The paper shows their usage in the Czech dialects, addresses their motivation in the Czech lexicon, and explains their origin.

Keywords

CS

česko-německé nářeční kontakty; nářeční slovník; dialektismus; lidová etymologie

EN

Czech-German dialectal contacts; dialectal dictionary; dialectism; folk etymology

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Naše řeč (Our Speech)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 98
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 71-78
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Stanislava  Kloferová

• Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v. v. i., Letenská 123/4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic