Timing of Hungarian Loanwords into Standard Prekmurje Slovenian

Abstract

This article focuses on Slavic-Hungarian and Hungarian-Prekmurje language contacts. It also presents some specific Hungarian loanwords from various terminological groups. The main part of the article examines the timing of Hungarian loanwords into standard Prekmurje Slovenian. The phonological and semantic shifts in medieval Hungarian that are preserved in certain words borrowed from Hungarian into standard Prekmurje Slovenian can help determine the time of borrowing individual loanwords.

Keywords

• language contact
• hungarian
• standard prekmurje slovenian
• time of borrowing hungarian loanwords
• phonological and semantic shifts