The Indo-European Voice of Barbarians
The Indo-European Voice of Barbarians
Author(s): Lucian Vasile Bâgiu, Paraschiva BâgiuSubject(s): Cultural history, Ethnohistory, Local History / Microhistory, Ancient World, Novel, Lexis, Semantics, Historical Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics, Romanian Literature, South Slavic Languages, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Cultural Essay, Philology, Translation Studies
Published by: Språk- och litteraturcentrum, Lunds Universitet
Keywords: Emperor Trajan; etymology; Indo-European origin; King Decebalus; Latin; Laurentiu Liviu Faighel's Barbarians; Romanian; Sarmizegetusa Regia; Slavic; Thraco-Dacian substratum
Summary/Abstract: In our essay we shall focus on the analyses (cum grano salis) of a limited number of words from the introductory pages of the novel Barbarians (such as gorgan, grui, crap, fală, sfadă, etc.). Here, more than elsewhere the author makes use of a good amount of rather strange words in his stylistic attempt to conceive the realm of the Dacians. We shall make an analysis of the etymology of these rather uncommon words as designated in Vinereanu's Etymological Dictionary of Romanian Language (2008) (unlike the traditional Romanian dictionaries, a different vision). From the (probable) linguistic discrepancies and stylistic preferences, findings will be drawn and novelties will be suggested, concerned with Romanian language and culture.
Journal: Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies
- Issue Year: 1/2018
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 169-178
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English, Romanian