Slavic languages and literature

Темчин С.Ю., Вторая редакция польского перевода Корана по рукописям литовских татар: суры 1-я (аль-Фатиха) и 36-я (Йа Син) Казанского хамаила середины XIX века, in Diddi C. (ed.), Ricerche sulla traduzione e studi slavi: storia, critica, prassi esegetica, vol. 1, Salerno, 2021 (Europa Orientalis, vol. 20/1), p. 428–438.

Predgovor (Introduction), In: Boban Batrićević, Bog našeg nacionalizma. Recepcija, reinterpretiranje i korišćenje Njegoševa lika i djela u političkoj propagandi i diskursu vlasti u Crnoj Gori od 1851. do 2013. godine, Cetinje - Podgorica 2018, pp. 11-15.

Since most European students of Turkic linguistics start their university training with a course of Turkish they first learn that the Turkish word balyk ‹balık› means 'fish.' It therefore stands to reason that they feel most surprised when they are told in an Old Turkic course that balyk means both 'wall' and 'town, city' in Old Turkic. One can hardly understand how three meanings as different as 'fish' and 'wall' or 'town' are expressed by one and the same word, and thus the idea immediately suggests itself that at least one of these words is probably (or certainly) borrowed into Old Turkic from a foreign language that is apparently unknown to the student. Besides, there is only one possible phonetic association, that with Turkish bal 'honey' but this does not seem to make much sense.

The article presents the main results of an online survey and corpus research of Slovene paremiological units and discusses how paremiological units of modern origin are gathered. Some practical examples of the advantages of an optimum are given. An overview of the top 50 units of the Slovene paremiological optimum and their Eng-lish equivalents touches upon the question of describing shares of units with a common motivation as "high" or "low", while a comparison of genetically close languages-Slavic languages in this case-points towards a broader context. The article also discusses how the field of minimum-oriented research can be expanded by taking different socio-linguistic criteria into account. Lastly, it argues that the use of spoken corpora could lead to an even more holistic optimum in the future.

(= Polish pantałyk and its Eastern Slavic, Slovak, and Moravian counterparts. Remarks about the origin).  --  Summary: The Polish word pantałyk is only used in the expression zbić z pantałyku ‘put sb off his stride, confuse, upset, disconcert’ (lit ‘strike sb off the pantałyk’) The original meaning and the etymology of the word have been unknown, and this is also valid for Moravian, Slovak and Eastern Slavonic. This author argues that it primarily was a riding term ‘crupper’, composed of a German loanword with a Slavonic suffix.

(= Notes on etymology of the Slavonic dish name gołąbki 'cabbage rolls') ABSTRACT: No reasonable explanation of the peculiar semantic proportion gołąb 'pigeon' : gołąbek 'cabbage roll' (lit. 'small pigeon') has been presented so far. This author suggests that the latter is actually a separate word, possibly borrowed from some Oriental language, and only secondarily adapted to the Polish word gołąb 'pigeon' and thus also to its etymological equivalents in the Slavonic languages of Eastern Europe.

The book under review is of an anthological character the parts of which are dealing ratherloosely with the main subjects enumerated in the title. There is a comparatively large spreadin the authors’ choice of topics ranging from anthroponomy to orthographic issues, from phraseology to literary criticism, from translatology to methodical remarks concerning uni-versity language teaching and from etymology to linguistic relations. It should be pointedout that the papers are not grouped according to the main subjects but follow the alphabet-ical order of their authors’ names, which probably corresponds to the order in which theywere read at the conference. All the papers in this volume are dealing with some specific phenomena of Slavic cultures, literatures, and languages. The characteristic features ofSlavic cultures are approached in this book from a variety of views.