VICTOR CELAC
DOI: 10.33993/dr.2025.2.146.164
Author's coordinates: Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti”
al Academiei Române, Calea 13 Septembrie, nr. 13, București 050711
Email: victor_celac@yahoo.com
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8292-8413
AN ETYMOLOGICAL PROBLEM IN ION CODRU DRĂGUȘANU’S PEREGRINUL TRANSILVAN – THE NOUN ACERĂ ‘EAGLE’: CULTURAL LOAN OR INHERITED ELEMENT?
(Abstract)
In this article, I aim to present and analyse in detail the case of the noun aceră ‘eagle’ in Ion Codru Drăgușanu’s travel memoirs and also to illustrate his exceptional qualities as a creator in the field of neological vocabulary. This noun has been approached so far by the most prominent Romanian linguists and etymologists and considered as an element inherited from Latin. However, the arguments gathered and examined has led us to the conclusion that it is not an inherited element, but rather a cultural loan from lat. aquila, artificially „Romanianised” by applying the specific rules of phonetic evolution involved for inherited words.
Keywords: etymology, inherited words, neological vocabulary, lexical creativity, travel memoirs.
Cuvinte-cheie: etimologie, cuvinte moștenite, lexic neologic, creativitate lexicală, memorii de călătorie.
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