LAVINIA NASTA
DOI: 10.33993/dr.2025.1.57.67
Author's coordinates: Institutul de Lingvistică și Istorie Literar „Sextil Pușcariu” al Academiei Române Cluj-Napoca, str. E. Racoviță, nr. 21
Email: lavinia.dalalau@yahoo.com
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2432-0549
BLIND MAN’S BUFF: (GEO- AND ETHNO-) LINGUISTIC NOTES
(Abstract)
Our study approaches the issue of children’s games, using the answers to question 4337 in Atlasul lingvistic român [The Romanian Linguistic Atlas] questionnaire, from a geo- and ethnolinguistic perspective which offered unique results that supported us in recreating the game’s architext. Further, the distribution of terms in the Romanian territory, the etymological references, the lexical explanations and the grammatical notes helped us explain the speakers’ preference for a certain terminological variant and also to make a connection between linguistic and extralinguistic reality. In the end, we concluded that the games represent the echoes of ancient rituals, which, to be best understood, deserve to be studied from complementary perspectives.
Keywords: children’s games, blind man’s buff, ludonym, geolinguistics, ethnolinguistics.
Cuvinte-cheie: jocuri de copii, de-a baba-oarba, ludonim, geolingvistică, etnolingvistică.