DOI:10.30842/alp230657371921742
Vlaich‐Popovich Ya. Serbskaya
etimologicheskaya leksikografiya — tekushchiy moment. Acta
Linguistica Petropolitana. 17–42.
After a brief overview of the development of modern etymological
studies in Serbian, this paper proposes a description of the
contemporary Serbian etymological lexicography. Two Serbian
dictionaries are currently in the works: a comprehensive,
multivolume, thesaurus-type Etymological Dictionary of the Serbian
Language (Етимолошки речник српског језика, ERSJ), in
publication since 2003, and a concise scientific-popular Concise
Etymological Dictionary of the Serbian Language (Приручни
етимолошки речник српског језика, PERSJ), to appear in 2023.
With a focus on the latter (actually, rather more scientific than
popular) dictionary, the paper discusses some similarities and
differences between the two. The similarities come from the same
original basic principles and authorship of both dictionaries as
reflected in the lexematic lemma formation, trichotomous lemma
segmentation, the same chronological retrospective, etc. The
differences follow from the different purposes and,
correspondingly, the different targeted corpоra, word-inventory and
methodology (the list of lemmata, the range of lexis, the
approaches to definitions, extralinguistic data, etc.). This
comparison is illustrated with a few lemmata from both dictionaries
covering the same small segment of the lexicon (the noun
baba f. ‘a parent’s mother, old woman’ and its numerous
homonyms and derivatives — with a reference to their treatment in
Skok’s ERHSJ). The paper concludes that both dictionaries
contribute significantly to Serbian and Slavic etymological
studies. At the same time, the ERSJ will evidently take years or
even decades to complete. The PERSJ, planned to appear in print
much earlier, is expected to serve two purposes: to be used as a
“skeleton” for etymological solutions in the subsequent ERSJ
volumes (and thus speed up its development) and at the same time as
a basis for a genuinely popular Serbian etymological dictionary.
This arrangement should help the project to meet the requirement
voiced in [Stachowski 2015: 280] that “every language should have
three etymological dictionaries, tailored for various types of
users”.
Keywords
Serbian language, etymology, lexicography,
etymological dictionary, Etymological Dictionary of the Serbian
Language, Concise Etymological Dictionary of the Serbian Language,
Serb. baba ‘a parent’s mother, old woman’
References
Bjeletić 2011
M. Bjeletić. Rezultati i perspektive
srpske etimološke leksikografije [Results and prospects of Serbian
etymological lexicography]. S. Tanasić (gl. ur.) Gramatika i
leksika u slovenskim jezicima [Grammar and lexicon in Slavic
languages]. Novi Sad; Belgrade: Matica srpska; Institute for the
Serbian Language of SASA, 2011. P. 289–299.
Bjeletić 2013
M. Bjeletić (ur.). Ka izvorima
reči. Trideset godina Etimološkog odseka Instituta za srpski jezik
SANU [Toward the sources of language. Thirty years of the
Etymological department of the Institute for the Serbian language
of the SASA]. Belgrade: Institute for the Serbian Language of SASA,
2013.
Bjeletić, Vlajić-Popović 2008
M. Bjeletić, J. Vlajić-Popović.
Ekstralingvistički faktori u etimološkim istraživanjima (na primeru
Etimološkog rečnika srpskog jezika) [Extralinguistic factors in
etymological studies (the example of the Etymological dictionary of
the Serbian language)]. Zbornik Matice srpske za
slavistiku. 2008. Vol. 73. P. 57–70.
Bjeletić, Vlajić-Popović 2013
M. Bjeletić, J. Vlajić-Popović.
Jednotomni etimološki rečnik srpskog jezika (metodološki aspekt)
[One-volume etymological dictionary of the Serbian language
(methodological aspect)]. Zbornik Matice srpske za
slavistiku. 2013. Vol. 83. P. 171–180.
Boryś 2011
W. Boryś. Słowiańskie słowniki
etymologiczne. Rocznik Slawisticzny. 2011. Vol. 60. P.
15–70.
Daničić 1877
Gj. Daničić. Korijeni s riječima
od njih postalijem [Roots with words originating from them].
Zagreb: Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, 1877.
ERSJ
A. Loma (ed.). Etimološki rečnik
srpskog jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Serbian
language]. 1–. Belgrade: Institute for the Serbian Language of
SASA, 2003–.
Havlová 2012
E. Havlová. O metodách etymologické
praxe [On methods of etymological practice]. B. Vykypěl, V. Boček
(eds.). Methods of Etymological Practice. Praha:
Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2012. P. 9–66.
Ivić 1997
P. Ivić. Etimološki projekat SANU
[Etymological project of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts].
Slavistika. 1997. Vol. 1. P. 113–115.
Janyšková 2021
I. Janyšková. Úskalí tvorby
etymologického slovníku [Pitfalls of creating an etymological
dictionary]. S. Ristić, I. Lazić Кonjik, N. Ivanović (eds.).
Leksikografija i leksikologija u svetlu aktuelnih problema:
zbornik naučnih radova [Lexicography and lexicology in the
light of current problems. A collection of scientific articles].
Belgrade: Institute for the Serbian Language of SASA, 2021. P.
533–543.
Karlíková 2017
H. Karlíková. Etymologický slovník
[Etymological dictionary]. P. Kárlik, M. Nekula, J. Pleskalová
(eds.). CzechEncy — Nový encyklopedický slovník češtiny
[CzechEncy — New encyclopedic dictionary of the Czech language].
Available at: https://www.czechency.org/slovnik/ETYMOLOGICKÝSLOVNÍK
(accessed on 12.01.2023).
Moskovljević 2000
M. Moskovljević. Rečnik
savremenog srpskog jezika s jezičkim savetnikom [Dictionary of
contemporary Serbian language]. Belgrade: Gutenbergova galaksija,
2000.
OS ERSJ
P. Ivić (ed.). Ogledna sveska.
Etimološki odsek Instituta za srpski jezik SANU [Pilot issue.
Etymological department of the Institute for the Serbian language
of the SASA]. Belgrade: Institute for the Serbian Language of SASA,
1998.
PERSJ
A. Loma (ed.). Priručni
etimološki rečnik srpskog jezika [Concise etymological
dictionary of the Serbian language]. Belgrade: Institute for the
Serbian Language of SASA (To appear).
Petrović, Vučković 2018
S. Petrović, M. Vučković. Etimološki
rečnici srpskog jezika — od koncepcije ka metodologiji
[Etymological dictionaries of the Serbian language — from concept
to methodology]. R. Dragičević, V. Brborić (eds.). Srpska
slavistika. Kolektivna monografija. Tom I. Jezik [Serbian
Slavistics. Collective monograph. Vol. I. Language]. Belgrade:
Association of the Slavistic Societies of Serbia, 2018. P.
245–258.
Ristić et al. 2021
S. Ristić, I. Lazić Кonjik, N.
Ivanović (eds.). Leksikografija i leksikologija u svetlu
aktuelnih problema: zbornik naučnih radova [Lexicography and
lexicology in the light of current problems. A collection of
scientific articles]. Belgrade: Institute for the Serbian Language
of SASA, 2021.
RJAZU
Đ. Daničić, P. Budmani, T. Maretić,
S. Musulin, S. Pavešić (eds.). Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga
jezika [Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian language]. Vols.
1–23. Zagreb: Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts,
1881–1976.
RKS
Dj. Daničić. Rječnik iz književih
starina srpskih [Dictionary of Medieval Serbian Litteracy].
Vols. 1–3. Belgrade: State Publishing House, 1863–1864.
RSANU
Rečnik srpskohrvatskog književnog
i narodnog jezika [Dictionary of SerboCroatian literary and
vernacular language]. 1–. Belgrade: Institute for the Serbian
Language of SASA, 1959–.
Skok 1971–1974
P. Skok. Etimologijski rječnik
hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the
Croatian or Serbian language]. Vols. 1–4. Zagreb: Yugoslav Academy
of Sciences and Arts, 1971–1974.
Stachowski 2015
M. Stachowski. Remarks on the Notions
‘Dogmatic’ and ‘Analytic’ in Etymological Lexicography. Studia
Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis. 2015. No.
132. P. 271–281.
Vlajić-Popović 2017
J. Vlajić-Popović. Etimologija
srpskog jezika danas (uz osvrt na juče i pogled ka sutra)
[Etymology of the Serbian language today (with a glance at the past
and a look into the future)]. Južnoslovenski filolog.
2017. Vol. 73. No. 3–4. P. 137–161.
Vlajić-Popović, Bjeletić 2009
J. Vlajić-Popović, M. Bjeletić. Pavle
Ivić kao pokretač savremenih etimoloških istraživanja srpskog
jezika [Pavle Ivić as founding father of modern etymological
studies of the Serbian language]. Zbornik Matice srpske za
filologiju i lingvistiku. 2009. Vol. 52. No. 1. P.
67–75.
Vlajić-Popović, Bjeletić 2021
J. Vlajić-Popović, M. Bjeletić.
Istorijske potvrde u etimološkim rečnicima srpskog jezika
[Historical attestations in Serbian etymological dictionaries]. J.
Grković-Mejdžor, I. Bjelaković, M. Kurešević (eds.). Istorijska
leksikografija srpskog jezika [Serbian historical
lexicography]. Novi Sad: Faculty of Philosophy, 2021. P.
41–58.
Vučković 2021
M. Vučković. O korisnicima
etimoloških rečnika i etimološkim rečnicima s korisničkog aspekta
[On users of etymological dictionaries and etymological
dictionaries from the user prospect]. S. Ristić, I. Lazić Кonjik,
N. Ivanović (eds.). Leksikografija i leksikologija u svetlu
aktuelnih problema: zbornik naučnih radova [Lexicography and
lexicology in the light of current problems. A collection of
scientific articles]. Belgrade: Institute for the Serbian Language
of SASA, 2021. Р. 545–559.
