On the Etymology of Bulgarian Colloquial “Dundurkam”, “Tanturkam”, “Tanturest”, “Truntest”, “Nadrunden”

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Pages: 13-25
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54664/BUVV8245

Abstract:

The paper examines the etymology of Bulgarian colloquial “dundurkam”, “tanturkam”, “tanturest”, “truntest”, “nadrunden.” A hypothesis about the sound-symbolic origin of the words is presented. The following data are taken into consideration: the formal and semantic parallelism between words with reduplication expressing the same meaning, their formal and semantic variation. The common origin of these words is also possible.

Keywords:

etymology, sound symbolism, reduplication

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