Smiechoval a jiní -valové/-válové ve staré češtině
Smiechoval and other words ending in -val/-vál in Old Czech

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyzes the ambiguous Old Czech lexeme smiechoval/směchoval. It examines its context, textual variants and relationship to the Latin original and compares the different ways it has been addressed in historical dictionaries. Based on word-formational, syntactic and semantic relationships, the lexeme is interpreted as a substantive compound meaning ‘jester, joker’.

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