Slovenski narečni hapaks legomenon mežek ‘mlad medved’ in slovansko *mečьkъ ‘medved’

Autori

  • Metka Furlan Znanstvenoraziskovalni center SAZU, Inštitut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša, Ljubljana, Slovenija

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2024-0035

Kľúčové slová:

hypercorrection, voice, linguistic change, Slovene, Slavic, etymology, words for ‘bear’

Abstrakt

In the paper, the Slovenian dialect hapax legomenon məžək ‘young bear’, which was only attested in a narrow area of the Gorenjsko dialect, is related and explained from South-Slavic *mečьkъ ‘bear’ (= Serbian dial. méːčak, Macedonian dial. mečòk). The regularly expected phonetic development from *mečьkъ would be reflected as Slovenian *mečək, therefore, the Gorenjsko məžək belongs to those lexemes which have undergone non-systematic and sporadic phonetic changes. In the paper, it was not possible to give an unequivocal answer to the question of the etymology of the word family *mečьkъ : *mèčьka : *mečьcь with the starting point in the noun *mèka f ‘bear’, because *mèka could be a hypocoristic for *meduedь ‘bear’ or a deverbative from *me-ka-ti of onomatopoeic origin.

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Publikované

14-03-2025

Ako citovať

Furlan, M. (2025). Slovenski narečni hapaks legomenon mežek ‘mlad medved’ in slovansko *mečьkъ ‘medved’. Jazykovedný časopis, 75(2), 186 – 198. https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2024-0035