Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The article is devoted to a semantic evolution of the Proto‑Slavic dialects of Ukrainian and their correlates in other Indo‑European languages. The purpose of this article is to study their semantic transformations from Proto‑Indo‑European times to the present. The article identifies their Indo‑European and Slavic preforms, corrects those of them presented in the etymological literature; examines the types of semantic transformations of Proto‑Slavic dialects on the axis of Proto‑Indo‑European language – Proto‑Slavic language – from which ancient and modern Slavic languages and dialects are established; outlined are the dialectal zones of concentration for these lingual reflexes.
Source: Slavia Orientalis
Author: Ірина Нечитайло
Institution: Kyiv National Linguistic University
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4409446006