The main objective of the paper is to present, using the linguistic geography method, selected material from the Slovenian Linguistic Atlas (SLA) & from it derive possibilities for conducting ...research on the terminology of the blacksmith trade. The dialectal material selected from the SLA indicates a fairly uniform structure of denominations for the terms podkovati 'to shoe a horse' (SLA 128), klesce 'tongs' (SLA 155), kovac 'smith' (SLA 205), zelezo 'iron' (SLA 206), & meh 'bellows' (SLA 208), while the dialectal charts for the terms podkev 'horseshoe' (SLA 127), kladivo 'hammer' (SLA 154), & oglje 'charcoal' (SLA 207) are much more varied, indicating a great diversity in dialectal denominations. The impact of other languages in the so-called contact areas is perceivable particularly on the fringe of the Slovenian linguistic space. The dialectal vocational terminology of blacksmiths of the Gorenjska region, which is associated with this material (only denominations for different types of hammers & tongs & some blacksmiths' procedures are presented), demonstrates, however, a double standard: in the jargon used by horseshoe blacksmiths there are more adopted denominations for different blacksmith tools than in the language of art & craft blacksmiths, who use primarily original Slovenian expressions or terms accepted by the literary language. For more general meanings (such as blacksmith's procedures) they both use, however, Slovenian lexemes, while for denomination of more specialized jobs they use verbs with adopted basic word forming elements. 22 References. Adapted from the source document
The article presents dialect texts & vocabulary pertaining to the interesting custom of capturing songbirds in Kropa in Upper Carniola. The material was collected in the course of fieldwork among the ...male inhabitants of Kropa. In the lexical part of the article the names of types of birds, names of tools, methods for capturing the birds, & vocabulary characteristic of songbird hobbyists, etc., are covered. As the custom is dying out because of changing lifestyles & use of leisure time, the active vocabulary of Kropa dialect speakers is losing this semantic field. The present article presents not only the specialized vocabulary of songbird hobbyists, but also some (erstwhile) vocabulary of everyday communication in the dialect. 33 References. Adapted from the source document
The local dialect of Kropa in Upper Carniola, Slovenia, shows extensive vowel reduction in the form of the weakening of short stressed vowels into schwas & the weakening & loss of short unstressed ...vowels which are reduced in pretonic & posttonic syllables, word-final positions, & in clitics. The vowel /i/ undergoes the reduction most often but other vowels are also subject to this process to a lesser extent. Some consonant clusters with a sonorant resulting from the vowel loss disintegrate into schwa + sonorant. 6 References. Adapted from the source document
