ФРАЗЕОЛОГИЗМИ С КОМПОНЕНТ „ВОДА“ В БЪЛГАРСКИЯ И В РУМЪНСКИЯ ЕЗИК
PHRASEMES WITH COMPONENT „WATER“ IN THE BULGARIAN AND IN THE ROMANIAN LANGUAGE

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyzes phrasemes with the component „water“ in the Bulgarian and the Romanian language from a contrastive perspective. The parallel development of the two neighboring languages as well as the similar conditions of living on both sides of the Danube led to the appearance of phrasemes that are structurally and semantically equivalent. On the other hand, a number of phrasemes with the component „water“ have been detected that differ (analogues) or exist in only one of the languages.The analysis of the phrasemes with the component “water” in Bulgarian and Romanian shows that in both languages there exist a lot of phrasemes-calques. Their source language is often hard to determine. This fact proves that Bulgarians and Romanians perceive the surrounding world in a similar way. Water plays an important role in life of both nationalities. Sometimes it ensures the food as an important part of human life. It also relates to the reclaim of land around the Danube. Its significance in perpetuating human kind is indisputable. On the other hand, the presence of: equivalents with additional meanings, analogues with an additional lexeme in one of these two languages as well as analogues with a changed lexical component outlines the differing cultural specifics of the people on both sides of the Danube.

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