ABOUT SOME FOLK MEDICAL TERMS OF FOREIGN ORIGIN IN SOUT-EAST SERBIA VERNACULARS Cover Image

О НЕКИМ НАРОДНИМ МЕДИЦИНСКИМ ТЕРМИНИМА СТРАНОГ ПОРЕКЛА У ГОВОРИМА ЈУГОИСТОЧНЕ СРБИЈЕ
ABOUT SOME FOLK MEDICAL TERMS OF FOREIGN ORIGIN IN SOUT-EAST SERBIA VERNACULARS

Author(s): Nadežda Jović
Subject(s): Language studies, Regional Geography, Lexis, South Slavic Languages, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
Keywords: South-East Serbia; folk medical term; foreign origin; Serbian medieval manuscripts;

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals about some folk medical terms (reoma, evtika, malasilj, čuma, šuga etc.) of foreign origin (Latin, Greek, Turkish) existing in South-east Serbia vernaculars. Some of them could be find in serbian medieval medical manuscripts. It is quite understandable since the medical knowledge came in those languages at that time. There aren’t some of those terms (artetika, epilenžija, pleurežiš, ptižiš) in vernacular. The contemporary folk medical desease terms (infrak, ekcem tumor) has undergone an additional foreign influence.

  • Issue Year: 1/2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 157-167
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Serbian