*Rěč', *slovo, *besěda: Etymology and semantic prehistory

Common Slavic words *rěč', *slovo and *besěda all came to express, in different Slavic languages, the linguistic notion of 'word, speech', but each of those apparent synonyms has a (pre)history of its own. That of *rěč' is the least complicated: as a verbal noun from *rekti '...

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Main Author: Loma Aleksandar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute for the Serbian Language, Belgrade 2008-01-01
Series:Južnoslovenski Filolog
Online Access:http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-185X/2008/0350-185X0864199L.pdf