Old Czech anděl ‘angel’
A Loanword from Old Church Slavonic or from Latin
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22344328 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vít Boček (0000-0001-5940-2010, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Language Institute, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 7-21 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slovene (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2304-0785 • E-ISSN: 2305-6754 |
| Publisher | Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (PUBLISHER • RU) |
| DOI | 10.31168/2305-6754.2021.10.2.1 |
| OpenAlex | W4285535472 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
The aim of this paper is to discuss the existing theories of the origin of the Old Czech word anděl ‘angel’, whose -ď- may be explained as reflecting influence from Old Church Slavonic анг҄елъ, containing a palatalised sound, or from Medieval Latin angelus [anjelus]. New supporting arguments in favour of the latter view are presented, and, in particular, further evidence of Old Czech [ď] in place of earlier [j], the possible secondary influence of antonymous Old Czech diábel/ďábel ‘devil’ in the modification of original Old Czech anjel to anděl, and the form of words for ‘angel’ in other West and western South Slavonic languages. Also considered is the possibility that the origin of anděl is to be found in a spoken Early Romance dialect
Art · Czech · Linguistics · Literature · Loanword · Romance languages · Slavic languages · Classics · History · Language and Culture · Linguistics and language evolution · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |