Церковнослов’янізми, пов’язані з церковними таїнствами в українському письменстві ХVІ –ХVІII століть
Church Slavonic words associated with the church sacraments in the Ukrainian literature of the 17th and 18th centuries

Summary/Abstract: This article analyses the phonetics, structure and semantics of Church Slavonic words used in the Ukrainian language of the 16th to 18th centuries. The semantic development of Church Slavonic words in contemporary Ukrainian and in liturgical practice is also examined. The research is timely due to the need for a deeper, systematic study of liturgical and ritual vocabulary in the Ukrainian language of the 16th to 18th centuries, in particular of items taken from Church Slavonic characteristic of the religious sphere – such as those associated with the sacraments and their administration. The sources for the research were secular Ukrainian texts: legal documents, scripts, chronicles, literature and polemical writings, found in the corpus of the Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language, 16th and First Half of 17th Century, in the Ukrainian Historical Dictionary, ed. E. Timchenko, and in the card index kept at the Ukrainian Language department of the Ivan Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies, at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Lviv). Illustrative material from the historic texts, combining theological and scientific styles is included. The analysis shows that different graphic and phonetic variants of Church Slavonic vocabulary connected to church sacraments were in frequent use in the Ukrainian language of the 16th to 18thcenturies. These are mostly semantic calques from Greek which came into the Ukrainian language via Church Slavonic. The studied vocabulary was found, with minimal semantic changes, to have survived in modern literary Ukrainian and in Church and liturgical practice.

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