Original title:
Czech and Slovak laskonka 'a kind of sweet dessert'
Authors:
Boček, Vít Document type: Papers Conference/Event: Etymological Symposium Brno 2017, Brno (CZ), 20170912
Year:
2017
Language:
eng Abstract:
In the paper, Czech laskonka ‘a kind of sweet dessert’ is explained as a result of the shortening of the word laskomin(k)a ‘appetite, desire‘, ‘delicacy, dainty’, which goes back to Common Slavonic *oskomina, probably an Early Romance loanword.
Keywords:
borrowing; Czech; Early Romance; etymology; Slovak Project no.: GA13-17435S (CEP) Funding provider: GA ČR Host item entry: Etymological Research into Czech. Proceedings of the Etymological Symposium Brno 2017, 12-14 September 2017, Brno, ISBN 978-80-7422-619-9
Institution: Institute of the Czech Language AS ČR
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Document availability information: Fulltext is available at the institute of the Academy of Sciences. Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0292451