Едно рядко значение на улица в контекста на старата славянска книжнина
A Rare Meaning of улица in the Context of Old Slavic Literature

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses a rare Old Bulgarian meaning of the noun улица in written monuments related to the Preslav Literary Centre. In some of this translation school’s landmark works – The Dialogues of Pope Gregory the Great, Theology and Hexameron by John the Exarch of Bulgaria, the lexeme does not mean ‘a passageway, a passage between buildings’, but ‘a door, gates’ and ‘a window’. The author suggests that this meaning is a relic of the relatively late distancing between today’s successors to the Proto-Slavic *ula – улей (‘gutter, runway’), and улица (‘street’) whose unifying meaning is ‘free space yet limited by boundaries’.

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