RARE WORDS IN THE OLD BULGARIAN TRANSLATION OF ST. ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA’S SECOND AND THIRD ORATIONS AGAINST THE ARIANS Cover Image

РЕДКИ ДУМИ В СТАРОБЪЛГАРСКИЯ ПРЕВОД НА ВТОРО И ТРЕТО СЛОВО ПРОТИВ АРИАНИТЕ ОТ АТАНАСИЙ АЛЕКСАНДРИЙСКИ
RARE WORDS IN THE OLD BULGARIAN TRANSLATION OF ST. ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA’S SECOND AND THIRD ORATIONS AGAINST THE ARIANS

Author(s): Tatyana Ilieva
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Lexis, Eastern Slavic Languages, Philology
Published by: Шуменски университет »Епископ Константин Преславски«
Keywords: Old Bulgarian language; Constantine of Preslav; polemics against the Arians

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses the words which either have yet not been registered in the lexicographic reference books on Old Bulgarian or have been noted in them only by an example from the Slavonic version of the Athanasius polemics against the heresy of Arius. A comparison is made with the lexis found in the classical Old Bulgarian written monuments of the same period but kept in later copies with the aim to determine how the units of the mentioned class are incorporated into the lexical-semantic paradigms known from the classical Old Bulgarian monuments. The conclusion is that Constantine of Preslav enriched the historical vocabulary of the Bulgarian language with unknown lexical units of all the categories of full-meaning words. All derivative and most of the compositional elements and models, among the registered only in this writer’s works lexical units, are known also from other Old Bulgarian monuments. New single wordings are also registered in relation to their first component. In a number of cases, words that are registered only in the translation of the polemics against the Arians, are found also in the rest of the texts with a different derivational formant yet with the same meaning, which makes it clear that Constantine of Preslav contributed to the development of synonymy in the Old Bulgarian language.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 18
  • Page Range: 54-84
  • Page Count: 31
  • Language: Bulgarian