ĽUDOVÁ ETYMOLÓGIA V ETYMOLOGICKOM SLOVNÍKU RUDOLFA SKOTNICKÉHO

• Authors: Glaap Natália

Title variants

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Folk etymology in Rudolf Skotnický's etymological dictionary

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The focus of the presented paper lays on the analysis of Rudolf Skotnický's conceptual work entitled Material for an etymological dictionary, which is most likely the first comprehensive etymological dictionary in the Slovak linguistic environment. However, in his attempt to provide an etymological interpretation of individual words, R. Skotnický does not proceed in accordance with contemporary etymological knowledge, and when clarifying the genesis of words, he often starts from the sound and meaning similarity with words that have a completely different origin. This way of etymological interpretation is called folk etymology. The purpose of our work is to demonstrate folk etymological derivation using examples of specific words from the mentioned dictionary. At the same time, we compare the individual analyse with contemporary etymological works.

Keywords

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FOLK ETYMOLOGY; ETYMOLOGY; RUDOLF SKOTNICKÝ; COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Jan Stanislav Slavonic Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Matica Slovenska
• Journal: Slavica Slovaca
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 58
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 122-137

Contributors

author

Glaap Natália

• Filozofická Fakulta Univerzity Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre, Štefánikova 67, 949 74 Nitra, Slovak Republic

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/SlavSlov.2023.1.7