Baltistica (Nov 2011)

Leksēmas <em>ēna </em>un <em>pakrēslis </em>latvie&scaron;u izloksnēs

  • Anna Stafecka

DOI
https://doi.org/10.15388/baltistica.32.1.404
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 32, no. 1
pp. 77 – 82

Abstract

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LEXEMES ēna AND pakrēslis IN LATVIAN DIALECTSSummaryThe article deals with the analysis of the nomination of shadow in Latvian dialects.Standard Latvian ēna has two main meanings: „shadow of a tree” and „shadow of a living being”. The second meaning is more widespread in dialects than the first one and is connected semantically with dialectal ēns, ēna „ghost”.Some more archaic nominations of the shadow of a living being as sejs and susētuvis have been preserved in High Latvian.Lexeme pakrēslis in Standard Latvian has a meaning „shadow of the tree”, nevertheless in dialects it has also the meaning „shadow of a living being”.The examined dialectal material shows some archaic nominations of shadow of a living being while the change of meanings is observed in Standard Latvian.

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