Elemente regionale regăsite pe epitafurile din Cimitirul vesel, Săpânţa
Regional elements found on the epitaphs from the Merry Cemetery (`Cimitirul vesel`), from Săpânţa

Summary/Abstract: Texts written on the crosses from the Merry Cemetery give us a series of words, interesting as form, as well as semantics, most of these found only in the area of Maramures County. These texts constitute a veritable museum of popular speech in Săpânţa (idiom framed with reserves in the subdialect of Maramures), many of the words or lections of some words being old and even unascertained in other areas of the country. In addition to morphological and lexical aspects, very interesting phonetics aspects are found. Browsing the rich material, offered by texts written on the crosses from the Merry Cemetery, it is noticeable that this dialectal area is distinguished by conservative features. Here, terms inherited from Latin are being found. To these terms, a series of ancient Slovenian origin words are preserved and specific semantics of the sixteenth century are added. Furthermore, the existence of some novel derivatives is remarkable because they offer a special coloring to the speech from the area of Săpânţa.

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