Szesztra – about regional reborrowing of a vanished Slavic loanword
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https://doi.org/10.18349/MagyarNyelv.2019.4.460Keywords:
Hungarian language, regional level, vanished Slavic loanword, reborrowing, direct loanwords, szesztraAbstract
Language is constantly changing. This is a natural phenomenon that is closely linked to social, economic, cultural and even political changes. Some words get into a language and some words get out of it. In various parts of the Hungarian linguistic area these changes obviously do not take place identically. There are also differences in how and when they come about. Cases also occur in which a word that is hardly used any more in one geographical area is still commonly used in another region. However, it is much less common for a word known to have existed in an earlier period of Hungarian but having become extinct to be reintroduced into the language in the form of direct borrowing, even if only at a regional level. In this paper we deal with such a word, szesztra ‘nurse’.
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