South Slavic lexicon in Balkanic context, the word family of the noun xala

The paper offers a semantic analysis of the word family of the South Slavic *xala. attested in Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian and Bulgarian, this noun originally used to denote both the storm, tempest and the daemon causing it. According to popular beliefs the principal attributives of *xala are enormou...

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Main Author: Bjeletić Marta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute for Balkan Studies SASA 2003-01-01
Series:Balcanica
Online Access:http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-7653/2003/0350-76530334143B.pdf