When, where and from whom were the Hungarian dialect words mont and konta are borrowed? Cover Image
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Когда, где и у кого были заимствованы венгерские диалектные слова mont и konta?
When, where and from whom were the Hungarian dialect words mont and konta are borrowed?

Author(s): Sándor Mokány
Subject(s): Language studies, Geography, Regional studies, Phonetics / Phonology, Lexis, Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Finno-Ugrian studies, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: White Croatian loanwords; Hung. mont; konta;

Summary/Abstract: On the basis of phonological, semantic and lexico-geographical data the author claims that Hungarian dialect words mont ‘grape pressed at harvest’ and konta ‘dock-tailed (mainly hen or pig)’ are loanwords borrowed from Slavic languages before the second part of 10th c. (cf. Proto-Slavic mǫtъ ‘pressed grape’, kǫcъ ‘dock-tailed [mainly hen or pig]’). The people who transferred these words into Hungarian must have belonged to a White Croatian tribe living at that time on the slopes of the North-East Carpathians closer to Hungary.

  • Issue Year: 52/2007
  • Issue No: 1(2)
  • Page Range: 283-288
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Russian