Pomenovanie manželkinho brata (nielen) v slovenských nárečiach
The Name of the Wife’s Brother (not only) in Slovak Dialects

Summary/Abstract: A signifi cant feature of terminology describing family relations in Slavic languages is its substantial cognitive value from the linguistic and extra-linguistic point of view. They reflect not only internal language development, but also mainly extra-linguistic factors that give the possibility to identify the cultural development context in space and time. The author’s focus is on the development of two groups of words relating to kinship acquired by marriage – nomina afi nitatis. The first group of words – naturally – is characterized by integration tendencies with other Slavic languages, while the second group shows a divergent tendency which is characterized by a decline of the original Slavic name system, e.g. šur, dever, svojak, zolva/zelva etc. and borrowing of words of German origin like švagor/švagriná without regard to the respective relationship to bride or bridegroom, or to their parents.

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