On the Etymology of two Balkan Lexical Borrowings in Bulgarian: текя̀свам, терк Cover Image

Zur Etymologie zweier balkanischer Entlehnungen in der bulgarischen Sprache: текя̀свам, терк
On the Etymology of two Balkan Lexical Borrowings in Bulgarian: текя̀свам, терк

Author(s): Todor A. Todorov
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Tracus Arte
Keywords: etymology; semantic evolution; consonantal substitution; vocalic substitution

Summary/Abstract: The present paper takes into consideration, critically, the previous etymological explanations of the Bulgarian words текя̀свам ‘to get bored’, as a dialectal term, and терк ‘model, standard ; (fig.) ‘a bizarre, extravagant person’, as used in colloquial speech. New etymological explanations are propounded for the two words: the etymology of текя̀свам should not be considered as separate from the one of окекя̀свам ‘to get bored’, already discussed in Dictionnaire étymologique bulgare; as for терк, it preserves a Turkish archaic term, *terk, as variant of terh ‘plan, project’ (from Persian ṭärḥ ‘plan, project, sketch’). The author takes into account phonetic, morphological and semantic features of the analyzed words.

  • Issue Year: VIII/2012
  • Issue No: 1 (15)
  • Page Range: 223-228
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: German