Plesmeřisko: poznámky k jednomu okazionalismu

• Authors: Marta Šimečková

Title variants

EN

Plesmeřisko: some notes on one nonce word

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The paper deals with the word plesmeřisko, attested in a collection of Moravian short stories from the 19th century. This word with unclear meaning was found to be a nonce word, i.e., a word unattested in other sources. It may be an augmentative derived from the dialect word plezmero (with the original meaning ‘unbottened shirt’, hence ‘bare chest’, later used as a derogatory word especially for a disheveled, lazy woman). The word plezmero is a compound consisting of the unclear second element -mero and the first component plez-, which originates in the Czech verb plazit (se) (‘to creep, crawl’). Other dialect words with the root plez-/plaz- are explored in a synchronic and diachronic perspective.

Keywords

CS

etymologie; kořen plez-/plaz-; lexikální dialektismus; okazionalismus; významový posun

EN

dialect lexeme; etymology; nonce word; root morpheme plez-/plaz-; semantic shift

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Naše řeč (Our Speech)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 107
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 96-101
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Marta Šimečková

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