Lexical Heritage of the Lechite Type in the Czech and Russian Languages

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10.2991/assehr.k.201215.314How to use a DOI?

Keywords

isogloss, geographic terms, appellatives, prefixal derivatives, river name, place name, noun, verb, Lechite lexical fund

Abstract

This article is dedicated to analysis of vocabulary of Lechite origin in Great Russian, Great Polish and Czech language areas. The common “Lechite” lexical fund is numerous. The study shows that prefixal derivatives with prefix wy-/vy- alone make more than 600 cognate lexical units. Only 16 forms have truly ancient Common Slavic status, while the overwhelming majority of forms continue the late Slavic dialectal neologisms not of the entire Winden dialectal area of the VI century, but of the actual Lechite area of the VII century AD. The undertaken study makes it evident that the large-scale migrations of Lechite tribes at the beginning of the VIII century to Bohemia and to the basin of Dnieper, Don and Oka left obvious lexical heritage, not only the Lechite people’s geographical terminology, but also the significant appellative lexical fund, preserved until today.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Alexander Shaposhnikov
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/18
TI  - Lexical Heritage of the Lechite Type in the Czech and Russian Languages
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 104
EP  - 118
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201215.314
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201215.314
ID  - Shaposhnikov2020
ER  -