Etymology

The term Volksetymologie has frequently been applied to the etiological passages of the Hebrew Bible and occasionally to such passages in Mesopotamian literature that explain the origin of the name of a person, place, or thing. Originating in mid- nineteenth century German Sprachwissenschaft, the term generally assumes that the authors of such passages were possessed of a considerable philological ignorance and naïveté. These etymological narratives are thus regularly brushed aside as childish though charming. Alternatively, they are often understood as interesting aesthetic devices, related to paronomasia and punning.

It is becoming increasingly evident, however, that the activity of parsing a name is linked to broader interpretive methods employed by scribes in the ancient Near East. Indeed, our developing understanding of intellectual practices in Mesopotamia and among the Bible’s tradents has demonstrated that Babylonian and Judean scribes could employ rather sophisticated hermeneutics. This fact has significance for our evaluation of biblical etymological passages in many ways including, for example, the methods employed by ancient authors to interpret names within narratives and their motivation for doing so.

"Muhalif" kelimesi Türkçe sözlükte "bir şeyin karşısında olmak" olarak açıklanır. Siyasal anlamıyla Türkçede "muhalif", kökeni üzerinden anlaşıldığı üzere, "bir şeyin hilafında olmak" anlamı taşır. Yunancada "muhalif" kelimesinin siyasal ve gündelik iki farklı kullanımı mevcuttur. Kelimelerin biri tam manasıyla "bir şeyle hasımlık üzerinden kurulan ilişki"ye karşılık gelirken, diğeri "bir sesin içinden/sayesinde çıkan bir başka ses" anlamındadır. İki dilde aynı kelimeyle karşılanan anlamlar üzerinden Türk siyasal kültürüne dair bir okuma yapmak, bu çalışmanın amacını ve kapsamını belirler.
Muhalif olmak, siyasal muhalefet, siyasal kültür ve etimoloji, Türkçe "muhalefet", Yunanca "muhalefet"

Ponencia presentada en el XXV Simposio Nacional de Estudios Clásicos - Buenos Aires, agosto 2018



En la presente comunicación intentaremos, por un lado, establecer el vocabulario desplegado en Germania de Tácito para señalar los límites y fronteras, atendiendo a su frecuencia y pasajes de ocurrencia. Por otro, nos detendremos en el campo semántico que cubre cada uno de los vocablos recabados y de su significación e implicancias en la textualidad de la obra, en consonancia con nuestro objetivo principal: establecer los diferentes modos de representación (ideológica, cultural, espacial) del concepto de frontera que aparecen en el texto a través del análisis del vocabulario que la representa.

In this communication we will try, on the one hand, to establish the vocabulary displayed in Tacitus' Germania to indicate the limits and frontiers, according to their frequency and passages of occurrence. On the other, we will dwell on the semantic field that covers each of the words collected and their significance and implications in the textuality of the work, in line with our main objective: to establish the different modes of representation (ideological, cultural, spatial) of the concept of frontier which appear in the text through the analysis of the vocabulary that represents it.

Темчин С.Ю., Лит. žíedas, лтш. zieds ‘цветок’, др.-прусск. seydis ‘стена’ и южнослав. *zidъ ‘стена’: о флористических истоках балто-славянского строительного термина, in Карановић З. (ред.), Гора калинова: биљни свет у традиционалној култури Словена, Београд, 2019, с. 267–284.

In lieu of a published abstract:

The paper proposes that the Finnish (and Karelian) verbs kuopia ‘paw; dig (continuously)’ and kuopaista ‘paw; dig (momentaneously)’ may go back to a hypothetical, unattested noun **kuopa (< Proto-Finnic *koopa), an otherwise lost word for ‘hoof’, ultimately going back to Proto-Germanic *χōfa-z id. (> English hoof, German Huf, Scandinavian hov etc.).

U radu se donose rezultati novih toponomastičkih istraživanja uzmorskoga pojasa otoka Brača. Terenskim su istraživanjem obuhvaćena sva obalna bračka naselja, a prikupljeno je 69 toponima koji nisu potvrđeni u Šimunovićevoj Bračkoj toponimiji. Toponimijska se građa analizira motivacijski, tvorbeno i prema jezičnome podrijetlu riječi kojima su motivirani. Upozorava se na potrebu izrade toponomastičkih zemljovida te potrebu da se u turističkim zemljovidima isprave pogrešni toponimski likovi.

A new edition of the earliest etymological study of a European vernacular language.

De Origine Scoticae Linguae (also known as O’Mulconry’s Glossary) is a text originating in seventh-century Ireland that provides etymologies for c. 880 Irish words, mostly drawn from Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Its Latin prologue declares its affiliation to the Graeco-Roman linguistic tradition, claiming an origin for the Irish language in the Greek dialects Attic, Doric and Aeolic. The glossary attests to the transmission and reception of the Latin grammatical tradition in Ireland and shines light in particular on the Irish knowledge of Greek and Hebrew. The text also represents a milestone in the history of European linguistics, as the earliest etymological study of a European vernacular language.

The glossary was published once before, by Whitley Stokes in 1898. This new edition provides the first translation and textual commentary, clarifying the sense of difficult entries and discussing sources. The introduction analyses the structure and contents, origins and development, linguistic issues, and relationships to other texts. The text is edited here along with a shorter related glossary of 232 entries, entitled Irsan, which includes shared material and sheds further light on its development.