On the history of the Hungarian doublet csörc ~ csörsz
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18349/MagyarNyelv.2022.4.470Keywords:
historical linguistics, etymology, historical lexicology, historical phraseologyAbstract
This paper investigates the meanings and origin of the historically rarely attested, now extinct Hungarian word forms, csörc and csörsz. Although the Magyar nyelvtörténeti szótár (Historical Dictionary of Hungarian) has two different entries for them, the author argues that they are variants of a single lexeme. The word forms are discussed by several authors in the literature but their meanings and usage have not been successfully clarified yet. The proposals are rather varied (e.g. a variant of csősz ‘field guard’, also ‘some bovine’, ‘poor person’, and ‘some kind of tax’). After thoroughly scrutinizing the relevant claims in the literature and meticulously analysing the contexts in which the word forms occur, this paper attempts to clarify their true meanings. It also discusses their etymological issues, how specific meanings may evolve from one another, raising the possibility of a new explanation of origin.
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