ABOUT CERTAIN DISEASE NAMES IN TRANSYLVANIAN-SAXON BORROWED FROM ROMANIAN AND HUNGARIAN AND ABOUT CERTAIN PLANT NAMES DOCUMENTED IN THEIR HEALING Cover Image
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ZU EINIGEN AUS DEM RUMÄNISCHEN UND UNGARISCHEN INS SIEBENBÜRGISCH-SÄCHSISCHE ENTLEHNTE KRANKEITSNAMEN UND EINIGE ZU IHRER HEILUNG VERWENDETE PFLANZENNAMEN
ABOUT CERTAIN DISEASE NAMES IN TRANSYLVANIAN-SAXON BORROWED FROM ROMANIAN AND HUNGARIAN AND ABOUT CERTAIN PLANT NAMES DOCUMENTED IN THEIR HEALING

Author(s): Sigrid Haldenwang
Subject(s): Descriptive linguistics, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: disease name; dialect; medicinal plant; Romanian; Hungarian; Transylvanian-Saxon; synonymous groups; vocabulary;

Summary/Abstract: The paper quotes a number of diseases whose names are borrowings from Romanian and Hungarian, including some names of medicinal plants. The names of the diseases are grouped according to certain criteria and then shown in their mother tongue in synonymous groups, illustrating the colorfulness of the Transylvanian-Saxon vocabulary.

  • Issue Year: XVIII/2011
  • Issue No: 18
  • Page Range: 161-169
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: German