The hidden life of a word from the language reform: burkony 'cloak, casing'
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18349/MagyarNyelv.2020.3.329Keywords:
language renewal, 19th Century, János AranyAbstract
The paper discusses the history of the word burkony based on a drama translation by János Arany. The word is now obsolete but it was a decidedly widespread word of the Hungarian language renewal in the second half of the 1800s. An examination of examples from press language and the specialized literature yields several consequences: first, the investigation clarifies the etymology of the word and enriches it with new results; second, the significant amount of material presented illustrates the structure and history of meaning of the word in a complex way. This material is still unrepresented in Hungarian dictionaries. Filling this gap, the paper reports on new results with respect to the specific semantic characteristics and history of this word.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2024 Margit Kiss
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Magyar Nyelv is a Diamond Open Access periodical. Documents can be freely downloaded and duplicated in an electronic format, and can be used unchanged and with due reference to the original source. Such use must not serve commercial purposes. In the case of any form of dissemination and use, Hungarian Copyright Act LXXVI/1999 and related laws are to be observed. The electronic version of the journal is subject to the regulations of CC BY-NC-ND (Creative Commons – Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives).
The journal permits its authors, at no cost and without any temporal limitation, to make pre-print copies of their manuscripts publicly available via email or in their own homepage or that of their institution, or in either closed or free-for-all repositories of their institutions/universities, or other non-profit websites, in the form accepted by the journal editor for publication and even containing amendments on the basis of reviewers’ comments. When the authors publicize their papers in this manner, they have to warn their readers that the manuscript at hand is not the final published version of the work. Once the paper has been published in a printed or online form, the authors are allowed (and advised) to use that (post-print) version for the above purposes. In that case, they have to indicate the exact location and other data of the journal publication. The authors retain the copyright of their papers; however, in the case of an occasional secondary publication, the bibliographical data of the first publication have to be included.
