Приноси на книжовника Дионисий Дивни за развитието на българската лексикална система
Contributions of the Scholar Dionysius Divni to the Development of the Bulgarian Lexical System

Summary/Abstract: The main objective of the study is to determine, on the basis of specific linguistic material, some of the contributions of Dionysius Divni, recognized as the most skilled translator from Greek into Old Bulgarian among the representatives of the Tarnovo Literary School of the 14th century, to the enrichment of the lexical system of the Bulgarian language. It analyzes words not attested in the Old Bulgarian canon, as well as lexemes with newly developed meanings in Dionysius‘ translation of St. John Chrysostom‘s homilies Against the Anomoeans, included as the first component in the book Margarit, which is significant for the Slavic manuscript tradition. Due to the discovery of numerous new meanings and words not used in the classical Old Bulgarian manuscripts from 10th–11th centuries in the texts mentioned, which proves the primary role of Dionysius Divni to the development of the Bulgarian lexical system, the study considers only words beginning with the letter D, some of which are still preserved today in various layers of the Bulgarian literary language.

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