Български влияния в румънския език в семантичните полета ‘води’, ‘риби’ и 'риболов'
Bulgarian lexical influences on the Romanian language in the semantic field of water, and fish/fishing

Author(s): Corinna Leschber
Subject(s): Anthropology, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Lexis, Semantics, Historical Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Cognitive linguistics, Descriptive linguistics, South Slavic Languages, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Translation Studies
Published by: Институт за български език „Проф. Любомир Андрейчин“, Българска академия на науките
Keywords: Рomanian language; Bulgarian language; Slavic borrowings in Romanian; water; fishing; fish names
Summary/Abstract: Based on authentic materials from the Romanian Linguistic Atlas (ALR II s.n.), examples of Romanian words are selected from the semantic field of water, fishing, and fish names. We focus on words of Slavic origin,more specifically, words with a Bulgarian and an Old Bulgarian etymology. Besides their linguo-geographic distribution and their areal properties – such as a wide distribution or limited attestation in the form of a so-called relic island – we examine: What other synonyms with non-Slavic etymologies does the respective word have, and can certain patterns be identified? In addition, we look at the phonetic variability of words and typical word formation processes. Furthermore, we attempt to draw possible conclusions about the region’s historical development. In their unpublished talk of 2016, Dahmen, Popovici conclude that most of the fish names in these areas are of Slavic origin,which testifies to the intensive settlement of Slavs in the lowlands and on the banks of the Danube River, which is supported by archaeological findings. It also confirms the traditional local Bulgarian-Slavic subsistence strategy of fishing. The word roots of many fishing terms are traceable back to the times of the Proto-Slavic homeland, so again we can confirm that fishing was a typical subsistence strategy of native Slavs.

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