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Naming of Tuberculosis in Czech Dialects
Konečná, Sabina
The so far unpublished material gained during research for the Czech Linguistic Atlas in 1960s and 1970s shows that names for tuberculosis of domestic as well as foreign origin existed in Czech dialects. A great group of words is formed by ancient names with the base souch-/such- (e.g. souchotiny, souchotě, souchoty; suchá nemoc). Also names with the base (ú)by were recorded. The recorded loanwords are of German origin (e.g. auscerunk, opcérunk, lunzucht). The most distinct loanword is lunzucht (with a lot of phonetic versions), typical for most of Silesian dialects. The names for tuberculosis were motivated by the process of losing weight and overall body decline accompanying this illness. The attached map shows geographical distribution of particular expressions.
Onymic and Dialect Area: Parallelism or Identity
Kloferová, Stanislava
A space projection of the dialect material of proper and non-proper names makes it possible that relations between both planes of the lexicon are more deeply understood, i.e. between the plane of proper names and that of non-proper names (i.e. appellatives). A dialect border is a transition formed on the basis of differences in non-proper names, as the Czech Linguistic Atlas shows. If such a transition is represented by a bundle of isoglosses separating linguistic phenomena of various language planes, we are dealing with a higher-order border. Such a border can also be useful for the interpretation of phenomena in proper names, e.g. from the area of toponymy (in particular, anoikonymy), as the work on Dictionary of Moravian and Silesian Anoikonyms indicates.

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