Ружно и грдно: концепт ружног у српском језику
Concept of ugly in Serbian language: ružno and grdno

Summary/Abstract: We analyze lexical iconicity of basic aesthetic expression categories in Serbian language which expressed concept of ugly– ružno and grdno (“ugly“). Their iconicity is, first of all, associated with the imagination of earthly substance (grdan), but is formed in connection with divine–human–animal opposition (ružno). The lexeme ružno (<*ureng- “bend” which is also contained in režati „growl”, „snarl”) which has taken over semantic components of the lexeme grdno is, on the other hand, determined by an opposition of human–inhuman and its iconicity contains images of animal like, deviant behaviour unsuitable to a human.Concept of grdno (<*gъrdъ <*gher- “abrade”, or *ghreu- “sharp”) is determined by an image of a substance which is uneven, rough and unsuitable for moulding. Esthetical and ethical categories in both former and later cognitive thinking are interconnected – evil and ugly oppose beautiful and good but they are also defined by them.

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