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- Title
SYRIAC LOANWORDS IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE PROTOBULGARIAN EPIGRAPHY, OLD AND MIDDLE BULGARIAN MANUSCRIPTS.
- Authors
SALDZHIEV, Hristo
- Abstract
The article deals with a segment of the lexemes of eastern origin registered in the Old Slavonic (Bulgarian) and Middle Bulgarian monuments, usually attributed to the so called "Protobulgarian", "Turkic" or even "Hunnic" lexical layer in Old Slavonic (Bulgarian). Several words with uncertain meaning recorded in Protobulgarian epigraphy from the 9th century are also taken into consideration. Our conclusion is that all of these words have Semitic origin - Syriac and Arabic, and were introduced into Protobulgarian and Old Slavonic (Bulgarian) not by means of Turkic mediation, but as a result of direct contacts between the population of the First Bulgarian Empire with Syriac speaking groups, that migrated from the regions of Melitena and Theodosiopolis in the middle of the 8th century, and subsequently settled in the border zones of Thrace.
- Subjects
SYRIAC language; LEXEME; LOANWORDS; INSCRIPTIONS; SLAVIC languages
- Publication
Linguistique Balkanique, 2018, Vol 57, Issue 1, p2
- ISSN
0324-1653
- Publication type
Article