Published: 2021-12-20

A Bohemism or a Ruthenism – huba, hubka 1. botany ‘fungus on trees, Polyporus’, 2. ‘dried Polyporus fungus for kindling fire’, 3. ‘fungi’

Dorota Krystyna Rembiszewska , Janusz Siatkowski
Zeszyty Łużyckie
Section: Articles
DOI https://doi.org/10.32798/zl.900

Abstract

The text is a lexical mini-monograph in the context of issues related to linguis­tic borderland and linguistic borrowings. The word under consideration is huba, hubka 1. botany ‘fungus on trees, Polyporus’, 2. ‘dried Polyporus fungus for kin­dling fire, amadou’, 3. ‘fungi’, which in the Polish language is considered either a Bohemism or a Ruthenism. In the light of the linguistic data presented, it can be concluded that the former infrequently attested Bohemian influence was forgot­ten, and that under the influence of the Ruthenian languages the forms of huba, hubka were only later popularized in the Polish general language. On the oth­er hand, the influence of the Czech (and Slovak) language can be observed in the southern dialects, while in the east and in the Polish dialects of the southern Eastern Borderlands, Ukrainian influences were marked. It should be additionally noted that the spreading of these forms in dialects was under a strong impact of the Polish literary language.

Keywords:

Slavic dialectology, language contact, dialect lexis, linguistic borderland

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Rembiszewska, D. K., & Siatkowski, J. (2021). A Bohemism or a Ruthenism – huba, hubka 1. botany ‘fungus on trees, Polyporus’, 2. ‘dried Polyporus fungus for kindling fire’, 3. ‘fungi’. Zeszyty Łużyckie, 55(1), 207–219. https://doi.org/10.32798/zl.900

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