Flora in Beja Lexicon

BLAŽEK, Václav. Flora in Beja Lexicon. Folia Orientalia. Krakow: Polish Academy of Sciences, 2021, vol. 58, No 1, p. 39-63. ISSN 0015-5675. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.24425/for.2021.142211.

Basic information

• Original name: Flora in Beja Lexicon
• Authors: BLAŽEK, Václav (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Folia Orientalia, Krakow, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2021, 0015-5675.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 60202 Specific languages
• Country of publisher: Poland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/21:00128152
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.24425/for.2021.142211
• Keywords in English: botanical terminology; semantic motivation; etymology; borrowing; Beja; Cushitic; Afroasiatic
• Tags: rivok

Abstract

In the present contribution the Beja botanical terminology is analyzed from the point of view of semantic motivation. The study is limited only to the unborrowed part of the botanical lexicon (with some exceptions), together 76 terms. First 51 terms are etymologized with help of external comparisons with probable cognates in other Cushitic or Afroasiatic languages. The last 25 terms are understandable from the point of view of internal etymology and their semantic motivation is more transparent than in the preceding cases.

Links

• MUNI/A/1171/2021, interní kód MU: Name: Podpora výzkumu studentů oborů obecná jazykověda (mgr., ph.d.), indoevropeistika (ph.d.), narratologie (ph.d.) a baltistika (mgr.)

Investor: Masaryk University