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