Późnolakońska nazwa rzepy

Late Laconian Name for ‘Turnip’ In his work Deipnosophistae (IX 369b), Athenaeus discusses Greek names for ‘turnip’, including Laconian γάστρα and Boeotian ζεκελτίς. Hesychius of Alexandria (5th c. AD) gives two Late Laconian names: γασταία and θικέλιν (‘turnip, Brassica campestris L., syn. Brassic...

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Main Authors: Elwira Kaczyńska, Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:b9168e51dc9545a8a77c5048e46b85762021-11-27T12:59:41ZPóźnolakońska nazwa rzepy10.12797/LV.14.2019.27.181896-21222392-1226https://doaj.org/article/b9168e51dc9545a8a77c5048e46b85762019-05-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.akademicka.pl/lv/article/view/734https://doaj.org/toc/1896-2122https://doaj.org/toc/2392-1226 Late Laconian Name for ‘Turnip’ In his work Deipnosophistae (IX 369b), Athenaeus discusses Greek names for ‘turnip’, including Laconian γάστρα and Boeotian ζεκελτίς. Hesychius of Alexandria (5th c. AD) gives two Late Laconian names: γασταία and θικέλιν (‘turnip, Brassica campestris L., syn. Brassica rapa L.’). The former term is an obvious reflex of Lac. γάστρα, while the latter seems to be a dialectal innovation. The present authors suggest that Late Laconian θικέλιν ‘turnip’ (originally ‘small gourd’) represents a diminutive form, derived from Late Laconian *θιᾱ́ f. ‘bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standl’ (= Tsakonian θιάα, θιᾶ [θiˈa] f. ‘bottle, flask; gourd / φιάλη; νεροκολόκυθο’ < Gk. Lac. φιάλᾱ ‘id.’, cf. Attic-Ionic φιάλη f. ‘a broad, flat vessel; bowl for drinking’) by means of the diminutive suffix *-κέλ(λ)ιον (< Latin -cellum). Ancient Greeks used the same name to denote turnips and bottle gourds, see the Hesychian gloss ζακελτίδες· κολοκύνται ἢ γογγυλίδες (‘bottle gourds or turnips’). Athenaeus (IX 369b) gives an analogous pair of lexical correspondences: Boeotian ζεsκελτίδες ‘turnips’ and Thessalian (?) ζακελτίδες ‘bottle gourds’. Elwira KaczyńskaKrzysztof Tomasz WitczakKsiegarnia Akademicka Publishingarticlenazwy botanicznedialekt lakońskidialektologia greckaleksyka greckaLanguage. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammarP101-410DEENFRPLRULingVaria, Vol 14, Iss 27 (2019)
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topic nazwy botaniczne
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dialektologia grecka
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Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar
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dialekt lakoński
dialektologia grecka
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Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar
P101-410
Elwira Kaczyńska
Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak
Późnolakońska nazwa rzepy
description Late Laconian Name for ‘Turnip’ In his work Deipnosophistae (IX 369b), Athenaeus discusses Greek names for ‘turnip’, including Laconian γάστρα and Boeotian ζεκελτίς. Hesychius of Alexandria (5th c. AD) gives two Late Laconian names: γασταία and θικέλιν (‘turnip, Brassica campestris L., syn. Brassica rapa L.’). The former term is an obvious reflex of Lac. γάστρα, while the latter seems to be a dialectal innovation. The present authors suggest that Late Laconian θικέλιν ‘turnip’ (originally ‘small gourd’) represents a diminutive form, derived from Late Laconian *θιᾱ́ f. ‘bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standl’ (= Tsakonian θιάα, θιᾶ [θiˈa] f. ‘bottle, flask; gourd / φιάλη; νεροκολόκυθο’ < Gk. Lac. φιάλᾱ ‘id.’, cf. Attic-Ionic φιάλη f. ‘a broad, flat vessel; bowl for drinking’) by means of the diminutive suffix *-κέλ(λ)ιον (< Latin -cellum). Ancient Greeks used the same name to denote turnips and bottle gourds, see the Hesychian gloss ζακελτίδες· κολοκύνται ἢ γογγυλίδες (‘bottle gourds or turnips’). Athenaeus (IX 369b) gives an analogous pair of lexical correspondences: Boeotian ζεsκελτίδες ‘turnips’ and Thessalian (?) ζακελτίδες ‘bottle gourds’.
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