DINU MOSCAL, ANA-MARIA GÎNSAC
DOI: 10.33993/dr.2023.1.56.68
Author's coordinates: Institutul de Filologie Română „Alexandru Philippide” al Academiei Române - Filiala Iaşi, Str. Th. Codrescu, nr. 2
Email: dinu.moscal@gmail.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8911-3823
https://www.philippide.ro/persoane/dinu_moscal.html
Author's coordinates: Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iași, Institutul de Cercetări Interdisciplinare, Iaşi, Bulevardul Carol I, nr. 11
Email: anamaria.ginsac@uaic.ro
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0220-6585
http://consilr.info.uaic.ro/~mld/monumenta/
PSALTIREA SCHEIANĂ AND THE HYPOTHESIS OF A LATIN SOURCE. PROBLEMS OF METHOD
(Abstract)
Based on several words of Latin origin in the oldest Romanian versions of the Psalter (significant in number in Psaltirea Scheiană), it has been presumed that their vocabulary of Latin origin was adopted under the influence of a Latin source: 1) the prototype was translated following a Latin source, from which certain terms, called “philological relics”, were retained in the preserved versions revised with Slavonic sources; 2) the prototype, translated from Slavonic, was probably revised at some point with a Latin source, the copyist choosing the etymological correspondent of some Latin terms under “etymological pressure”. The analysis of the arguments and the methodology used by the supporters of this thesis show that some essential aspects have been partially or totally ignored. In our view, the analysis requires several mandatory steps: identifying all occurrences in the Romanian text(s) and their correspondent in the Latin version; determining the occurrences of the etymological correspondent of the Romanian term in the Latin version and their equivalent in the Romanian version; comparing them with the correspondent within the Slavonic version; tracing the semantic concordance between the three versions. The result we have reached by applying this method to some of the examples cited in the previous studies (a deșidera, a cumpli, mesereare) does not validate the idea that vocabulary of Latin origin was adopted under the impact of a Latin source. Moreover, the words with uncertain etymology (rutes), those whose etymological correspondent does not exist in the Latin version (a pănăta, a spărți, cet, a învolbi, etc.), and the words that evolved semantically from the Latin etymon (stilus, duplicāre), cannot be brought as arguments in this discussion.
Cuvinte-cheie: Psaltire, traducere, lexic, română veche, surse, slavonă, latină.
Keywords: Psalter, translation, lexic, Old Romanian, sources, Slavonic, Latin.
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