Old Norse Þión and Its Old Russian Relative <i>Tiun</i>. Or How Scandinavian Servants Became East Slavic Bureaucrats

The Old Russian word ti(v)un is one of the few medieval loanwords from Old Norse which has been preserved in Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian to this day. Medieval judicial charters and legal texts from Scandinavia and East Slavic territories show that there was a significant semantic shift around...

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Main Author:	Hana Štěříková
Format:	Article
Language:	ces
Published:	Karolinum Press 2019-12-01
Series:	Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Philologica
Subjects:	lexical interference semantic shifts old norse old east slavic medieval judicial charters scandinavian loanwords in old russian
Online Access:	http://www.karolinum.cz/doi/10.14712/24646830.2019.27

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spellingShingle	Hana Štěříková Old Norse Þión and Its Old Russian Relative <i>Tiun</i>. Or How Scandinavian Servants Became East Slavic Bureaucrats Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Philologica lexical interference semantic shifts old norse old east slavic medieval judicial charters scandinavian loanwords in old russian
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title	Old Norse Þión and Its Old Russian Relative <i>Tiun</i>. Or How Scandinavian Servants Became East Slavic Bureaucrats
title_short	Old Norse Þión and Its Old Russian Relative <i>Tiun</i>. Or How Scandinavian Servants Became East Slavic Bureaucrats
title_full	Old Norse Þión and Its Old Russian Relative <i>Tiun</i>. Or How Scandinavian Servants Became East Slavic Bureaucrats
title_fullStr	Old Norse Þión and Its Old Russian Relative <i>Tiun</i>. Or How Scandinavian Servants Became East Slavic Bureaucrats
title_full_unstemmed	Old Norse Þión and Its Old Russian Relative <i>Tiun</i>. Or How Scandinavian Servants Became East Slavic Bureaucrats
title_sort	old norse þión and its old russian relative <i>tiun</i>. or how scandinavian servants became east slavic bureaucrats
publisher	Karolinum Press
series	Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Philologica
issn	0567-8269 2464-6830
publishDate	2019-12-01
description	The Old Russian word ti(v)un is one of the few medieval loanwords from Old Norse which has been preserved in Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian to this day. Medieval judicial charters and legal texts from Scandinavia and East Slavic territories show that there was a significant semantic shift around the time of the borrowing process itself: from a name for common unfree servants to the post of a prince’s official. Besides, it has gone through quite an extensive semantic development through the cen-turies both in North Germanic and East Slavic dialects that shows quite remarkable similarities.
topic	lexical interference semantic shifts old norse old east slavic medieval judicial charters scandinavian loanwords in old russian
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Old Norse Þión and Its Old Russian Relative <i>Tiun</i>. Or How Scandinavian Servants Became East Slavic Bureaucrats

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