Baltic kalu̯ā “hill” Blažek, Václav
Vilnius University open series,
11/2022
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The purpose of this contribution is to separate Baltic *kalu̯ā “hill” from Baltic *kalnas “mountain” and to connect it with Indo-Aryan *kū́lva-, Iranian *karu̯a- „thin-haired“; Greek *κόλϝος “docked, ...hornless”; Italic *kalau̯o- & *kalau̯ā “bald (head)”, and the Pre-Romance oronym *kalauos, besides the Gaulish cognomen calaua. The semantic shift from “bald” to “hill” is supported by numerous examples of “bald hills”.
Volha – řeka sedmi jmen Blažek, Václav
Linguistica Brunensia,
2021, Letnik:
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This article analyzes the names which denote or could denote the mightiest river of Europe – the Volga, namely Old Russian Volga, Mordovian Rav(o), Mari Jul, Turkic Ätil, preceded by Byzantine ...records as Ἀττίλας, Ἀστὴλ, Ἄτελ, Tίλ etc., further Ἀράξης, Ὄαρος and Λύκος by Herodotus, Ῥᾶ by Ptolemy, plus names of the mythical rivers Raŋhā- in the Young Avesta and Rasā́ - in the R̥gveda. Their etymologies are discussed in detail and the most probable of them are finally presented in specific quasi-homonymous chains of names that elucidate mechanisms of ethnic and language changes along the shores of the river. In Appendix the text passages are summarized to illustrate important information about the river in various literary and historical contexts.
Václav Blažek. Indo-European nominal o-stems and question of their origin. The Poznań Society for the Advancement of Arts and Sciences, PL ISSN 0079-4740, pp. 7-16
In the article the most productive ...formation of the Indo-European nominal declension, the o-stems, are described and analyzed. Two competing interpretations are discussed. One of them is finally preferred with respect to external typological parallels.
This article analyzes the published etymologies of Greek γαῖα & γῆ 'earth' with special attention to the Semitic etymology. The Canaanite origin seems to be the most promising solution.
The present contribution discusses the question of originality of the text The Tale of Igor’s Campaign Slovo o polku Igorevě from the point of view of its lexemes, both appellatives and proper names, ...which can be of oriental origin. The etymological analysis supported by modern lexicographic literature confirms the originality of proposed Orientalisms, especially in confrontation with the assumed Bohemisms and Hebraisms by Edward Keenan.
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