По следите на една остаряла гръцка заемка в българския език
Tracing the history of an obsolete Greek loanword in Bulgarian

Author(s): Hristina Deykova
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Lexis, Language acquisition, Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Институт за български език „Проф. Любомир Андрейчин“, Българска академия на науките
Keywords: Greek loanwords in Bulgarian; rare and obsolete words; dictionaries; semantic explanation
Summary/Abstract: The object of analysis in the paper is the Greek loanword харокòп adj., хорокòпа f. (< Gr. χαροκόπος m. ‘joker, reveler’), which is a rare and obsolete word. Even though the loanword is not used today in the modern language, it is found in the work of writers from the 19th century. The two forms of the word are included in the Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language by N. Gerov, but with different meanings – ‘skillful, dexterous’ and ‘funny,talkative woman’, which are quite distant from each other. The paper traces the discovered forms and uses of the word in a wider context and advocates the thesis that the meaning ‘skillful, dexterous’ in Gerov’s Dictionary is unreliable and is a result of an error that is multiplied in other written sources.

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