A Curious Case of Culinary Polysemy

Abstract

The term maslo represents a curious case of polysemy in whose microcosm two civilizations seems to meet and collide, Northern and Southern Europe: two universes, butter and oil, silently facing and challenging each other for centuries. The lexeme will be investigated in the relations of form and meaning observed in diachrony, in an attempt to grasp the representation of the polysemic word as a whole, with a dynamic structure constantly changing over time”.

Keywords

• butter
• oil
• polysemy