On the time of borrowing of loanwords involving Slavic nasal vowels and a method of calculation
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https://doi.org/10.18349/MagyarNyelv.2019.3.271Keywords:
Slavic nasal vowels, denasalization, Slavic loanwords, timing, method of calculation based on attestednessAbstract
One of the topics of the present paper is the time of denasalization of Slavic nasal vowels (ę, ǫ) and, correspondingly, the timing of Slavic loanwords in Hungarian that still witness the existence of those nasal vowels (rend ‘order’, gomba ‘mushroom’, etc.). The author reviews the shared conclusion of traditional Slavistics and Hungarian historical linguistics, and shows why and how that conclusion is debated by András Zoltán, professor of Slavistics at the Budapest university. The other topic of the paper, closely connected with the first, is a method of calculation that a Slavist of Szeged, Mihály Kocsis, proposed on the basis of the time of attestation of loanwords in Hungarian reflecting the existence of Slavic nasal vowels. The present author claims that that experiment cannot have been successful and convincing due to the small number and limited length of the extant Old Hungarian (9–14th century) texts.
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