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Based on a comprehensive survey of the results of earlier scholars, the study appreciates their contribution to the research of Slovak-Ukrainian-Polish relations. What is more, it proposes synthetic application of these facts in a history of linguistic phenomena and linguistic changes with regard to language interference.
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The author, going out from the analysies of rich lexical material, refers to various types and stages of the formal differences between Polish and Slovak equivalent names in the field of substantives and multiverbal denominations. At the same time he comes from the minimal formal differences, e.g. only in affixes or in irrelevant expansion element at multi-verbal names through the greater differences (especially occurring in polysemantic words and asymmetric equivalents) up to formally quite different names).
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The paper is an analysis of the disputable lexeme of a religious nature (name of Church holiday) occurring in a relatively wide geographical area of the South-Central to Eastern Europe – in Romaniam and Slavic languages. The analysis is based on and supported by linguistic and extralinguistic arguments. After a comparative analysis the conclusion is reached that the lexeme has its origin in the southern Proto- Slavic macrodialect still from the pagan times.
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The first part of the book bears a pattern of synthesis. It is a profound description of the nature of the national revival period. The discourse is based upon linguistic, historical and literary works as well as source material. The following five chapters deal with these topics: a) the problem of the initial period of the Slovak literary language is being solved (i.e. the question of its chronology is being discussed); b) the problem of the vernacular...
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The author of the paper introduces still unknown Cyrillic original material from the East Slovakia, dated to 16th –19th centuries and divides it into two spheres of interest in alphabetical order according to the place of finding. In the first sphere the author presents the marginal notations on the printed sacral and church books, by which some conclusions of I. Paňkevyč are completed and corrected. The second part of the paper, devoted to the characterization and language interpretation of the preserved Cyrillic manuscripts sights from the East Slovakia, will be published in the next issue of this journal.
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In spite of flourishing Classical scholarship in Central and Eastern Europe, relatively little is known in the West about what our Classics colleagues in that area of Europe are doing. Their work is seldom listed in Western bibliographies, and hundreds of their journals do not receive international circulation.
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This paper is an attempt at the etymology of the theonym Simarьglъ. The name Simarьglъ may be derived from *Simorьglъ/*Simōrьglъ and is considered to be a compound of Iranian Sīmurgh mythical flying creature’, and *orьglъ ‘eagle’, which is an example of a Slavic taboo word, with epenthetic g. Simarьglъ is then interpreted as a mythical bird and God, as Iranian Sīmurgh is in the Farid al-Din ‘Attar’s Conference of the Birds.
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The article is devoted to the analysis of the Carpathian-Balkan studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences that have been held since 2006. The Slovak tradition is an important one, as it has the characteristics which are common for the Carpathian zone in whole, furthermore, there are a number of Carpathian-South Slavic and the Carpathian-Balkan parallels in the terminological vocabulary and corresponding phenomena of folk culture.
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This article deals with some words of unknown origin in the Hungarian language and discusses the relevant problems of etymological research. The author focuses on the similarity of semantic reletions in the Slovak and Altaic languages as well as the semantic connections between Hungarian and Slovak words. The words denoting ″arrow″ and their role in semantic and etymological research is invetigated. Also discussed is the presence of Altaic loan words in Hungarian and the Altaic-Hungarian contacts as presented in a study by M. Marek (2003).
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The Nižnorybnický hymn-book was donated to Ján Stanislav Institute of Slavistics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, by academician Mikuláš Mušinka in 2008. Its existence was first reported by Ivan Paňkevyč in 1956. Paňkevyč had been notified of the manuscript by Štefan Papp who had been a priest in the parish of Nižná Rybnica (District of Sobrance) until 1952. Paňkevyč published only the secular songs of the hymn-book and he did not give any description of the manuscript. Today, the Nižnorybnický hymn-book consists of 77 folios, is destitute of cover and has a considerably damaged sewn binding. Hence, several folios are missing. The hymn-book contains 80 paraliturgical and 3 secular songs as well as an Old Testament narrative about Tobias. Most of the manuscript is written in a semi-cursive Cyrillic script (poloustav) but cursive Cyrillic is also partially used. The size of the hymn-book is 15,5 cm by 22,5 cm, the beginning and the end of the text are missing. The Nižnorybnický hymn-book belongs among those Cyrillic manuscripts of Eastern Slovakia which are inseparably bound to the local Byzantine-Slavonic hymn culture. The language of the manuscript contains borrowings from Eastern Slovak dialects, chiefly the Soták and Uh dialects. The hymn-book is closely bound to the identity of the Slovak members of the Byzantine-Slavonic Church in the territory of the former Eparchy of Mukačevo. It provides an opportunity for a comprehensive research into the Cyrillic production connected to the Byzantine Church in the territory of Slovakia.
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The Slovak-Latin Cantus Catholici hymnbook was an important means of Catholic renewal in Slovakia. This 17th-century printed book, of which only two copies are now extant, is a source of valuable information for different fieldsof study. Up to now, research has concentrated mainly on the hymnological and liturgical aspects of the hymnbook. Our aim is to present a broader interdisciplinary view of Cantus Catholici by joining the different approaches of musicology, slavistics and Neo-Latin philology. Being a bilingual publication, the hymnbook provides a rich source for the study of Latin-vernacular relations. Another particularly interesting aspect of the hymnbook is the way in which it affected the para-liturgical chant tradition of the Byzantine-Slavonic church in Eastern Slovakia. The following text was presented at the poster session of the 15th Congress of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies in Münster, Germany, 5–10 August 2012.
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The aim of this study was to try to selectively explore the issue of lexical composition in the Old Slavonic language without Greek parallels. The author´s approach was based on excerption of canonical works and also of later works, which, however, also contain texts written most likely already in the period of Cyril and Methodius. Since the beginning of the formation of the literary Slavonic language, the attention was paid to the most precise translation of the Greek text and consequently the dependence on the Greek model is substantial. In addition to the Greek influence on the emergence of Old Church Slavonic compounds, the limited number of Latin and Old-High-German paradigms also needs to be considered. Verbal productivity, specifically the productivity of the respective component in compounds (the second one with micro-syntactic objective construction), can often be observed in originally formed Old Slavonic compounds. Stylistic validity represents another important factor, not only in the case of legal terms.
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This contribution is a sequel to the Latin lexical excerpts published by the author in the previous issues of Slavica Slovaca. The present material comes from Martinus Szent-Ivany, Solutiones non solutiones cujusdam pastoris Augustani Viginti quatuor dubiorum Catholicorum, Tyrnaviae 1703 [SnS].
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In his paper the author points out the significance of interdisciplinary research and co-operation among different scientific branches when creating a complex image of scientific rsearch. Like slavistics, onomastics co-operates with various scientific disciplines. There search on Slovak hydronyms, i.e. terrain names, demonstrates the history of settlements and the influence of various ethnic groups on current toponymy. The onomastic research on persons´ nicknames finds the common points with ethnology, dialectology, and folkloristics. The research results of the aforementioned sciences are part of broad pan-Slavonic research and they have become a solid part od Slovak slavistics, too.
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The fate of Slavic studies in Russia is complicated and it had its ups (late 19th and early 20th century) and downs (1920s and 1930s), but until now there has been a multidisciplinary tradition of studying all Slavic peoples, their lan¬guages, literature, history and culture. The article introduces readers to the Slovak studies in Russia beginning with the first research on Slovaks, which appeared when interest in Slavs in other countries was just emerging in Russia (P.I. Keppen). Futher on the works of the first Russian Slavists sent by universities to Slavic lands “with research tasks” are considered. Those scientists (О. М. Bodyansky, I.I. Sreznevsky, P. P. Preys, V. I. Grigorovich and following) gath¬ered knowledge on Slovak (but not only) dialects, folklore and the way of life, culture and history of the people and laid foundation for the studies of the next generation of Slavists ( М. P. Petrovsky, Т. D. Florinsky, А. I. Stepovich, N. V. Yastrebov). The current state of investigations in Slovak language, literature, history and culture is represented by contemporary Slovak studies, which are concentrated in the Institute for Slavic Studies in Moscow, Moscow State Uni¬versity, Saint-Petersburg State University. In the article main researchers and their works and publications are presented. The article is based on general research into the history of Slavic studies carried out by leading Russian scientists (L. P. Lapteva, M. A. Robinson, M. Ju. Dostaľ) and special studies devoted to the history of Slovak studies in Russia (L. N. Smirnov, N. A. Kondrashov and others).
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