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Where are "vzrostliny"?
Rysová, Kateřina
The description of the development of the Czech word "rostlina"; we analyse the status in Old and Middle Czech and compare it with the situation in contemporary Czech.
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An unknown courteous word in Old Czech?
Nejedlý, Petr
The Old Czech hapax legomenon bnedovánie is used in the adaptation of the medieval knight romance Duke Ernest (Herzog Ernst). There are two hypotheses based on the lexical system: 1) the corrupt word is an archaic part of the word family constituted by the adjectiv sbedný and its derivates and it means ,a (brilliant and amusing) social behaviour corresponding with norms of court; (but we cannot satisfactorily explain word-formative processes leading from the sbedný to the bnedovánie); 2) the word is the corrupt form of Old Czech noun burdovánie (but its use is not convincing in the existing context).
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On the meaning of OCS tr6putica
Valčáková, Pavla
The OCS hapax legomenon tr6putica from a legend about Saint Benedict, whose author was Gregory the Great, is translated in Slovník jazyka staroslověnského as „tripod“. It was pointed out by E. Bláhová (Slavia 61, 404) that this is actually a wrong translation; she mentions that according to the second meaning of the Greek word it was plant Marrubium/horehound. However, the equivalents of OCS trьputica point rather to another plant – Plantago/plantain – which has similar healing charakteristics and which was (and has remained until today) a commoner healing plant for Slavs.
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