Lexikalische Divergenzen zwischen den slavischen Hymnen des Gottesdienstmenäums und ihren griechischen Paralleltexten: Ursachen und lexikographische Einordnung
Lexical Deviations between the Slavic Hymns of the Office Menaion and Their Greek Parallels: Their Causes and Lexicographic Representation

Summary/Abstract: Recording the lexical stock of liturgical hymns that are collected in the Slavonic Office Menaia for December, February and April as handed down in East Slavonic manuscripts from the 11th to the 13th century, quite a considerable amount of semantic deviations between lexical elements of the Slavic texts and their Greek parallels has been noticed. The article classifies the various types of such non-equivalent Greek-Slavic lexical pairs and points out to which circumstances they are causally connected. To obtain an unadulterated picture of the Greek-Slavic lexical equivalents actually used by the translators of the Office Menaion the author sorts out those inequivalent lexical pairs caused by variation in the Byzantine transmission of the hymns, mistakes made by copyists, misinterpretations by translators or paraphrasing of the Greek text and presents them apart from the actual lemmata in the extended and revised version of the Wörterbuch zum Gottes-dienstmenäum. By contrast Slavic expressions, which do not correspond to the Greek origin on a formal or semantic level, but nevertheless got commonly accepted as possible, sometimes even as exclusive translations, are presented within the lemmata marked by a special symbol. This especially applies to Greek-Slavic equivalents caused by the systematic transformation of popular Byzantine metaphors.

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