ИЗ ЗАПАДНОСЛАВЯНСКАТА ДИАЛЕКТНА ЕТИМОЛОГИЯ (СЛОВАШ. ДИАЛ. PREFENDOVAT’, PREFENTOVAT’, ЧЕШ. ДИАЛ. PROFENTOVAT’ И ДР.): ЗА ИЗПОЛЗВАНЕТО НА Т.НАР. КОМПЛЕКСНА СИТУАЦИЯ В ЕТИМОЛОГИЧНАТА ПРАКТИКА
FROM THE WEST SLAVIC DIALECTAL ETYMOLOGY (SLOVAK DIAL. PREFENDOVAT’, PREFENTOVAT’, CZECH DIAL. PROFENTOVAT’, ETC.): ON THE USE OF THE SO-CALLED COMPLEX SITUATION IN ETYMOLOGICAL PRACTICE

Summary/Abstract: The author discusses the origin of some Slovak and Czech dialectal verbs. In his opinion, Slovak dial. prefendovať, prefentovať, prefendývať ‘to reproach, express disapproval of, criticize; to draw attention to, remind; to repeat (something already said) before others, spread an information’, profentovať, profendovať ‘to speak a lot; to repeat; to speculate, philosophize; to answer back sharply, rudely’ can be traced back to an original *profetovať as a loanword from Latin prophētāre (literally, ‘to act as a prophet’). Тhe manifold semantics of the Slovak dialectisms seem to reflect the various aspects of the image (or the complex situation) of a prophet as documented in the Old Testament. The phonetically similar Czech dial. profentiť, profentovať ‘to make oneself prominent, more important’, profentýrovať sa ‘to show off, flaunt’ may be derived (while supposing a syncope profent- < proferent-) from an unattested noun *proferent ‘a person who shows off’ (cf. also Czech dial. proferentiť sa ‘to show off, flaunt’), from Latin sē prōferre ‘to raise one’s self, show one’s self, appear’, part. praes. act. sē prōferēns.

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