The origin of the word mazija ‘steel’

The word mazija ‘steel; forging ingot; a kind of ordeal which required plucking red-hot iron from a cauldron of boiling water’ is common in the western part of the Shtokavian dialect continuum. Its area includes the Zeta-Raška, the Eastern Herzegovinian and the Younger Ikavian dialect, the...

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Main Author: Loma Aleksandar B.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute for the Serbian Language, Belgrade 2021-01-01
Series:Južnoslovenski Filolog
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Online Access:http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-185X/2021/0350-185X2101009L.pdf