Etymologické dublety v španielčine a slovenčine
Etymological doublets in spanish and slovak

Summary/Abstract: In Spanish, so-called learned words, derived from Latin, form etymological doublets with popularwords, both of them tracing their origin to the same Latin etymon. While popular words haveundergone many acoustic and sometimes semantic changes, learned words have been subject toonly minor formal and, to a lesser extent, semantic alterations. Learned words are used mostly inspecialized and technical terminology, sometimes in literary style. In Slovak there are very fewetymological doublets because the main source of loanwords was neither its preceding Paleoslavicstage, nor Old Slavonic, or any other Slavic language. On the other hand, in Russian we can observemany loanword doublets consisting of popular words alongside Old Church Slavonic lexis.

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