Bunčić, Daniel 
ORCID: 0000-0002-1090-8907
(2023).
On the etymology of diacritics in general and the origin of the Czech diacritics in particular.
Slavia: Časopis pro slovanskou filologii, 92 (4).
pp. 385-424.
CEEOL.
ISSN 0037-6736
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Abstract
This paper demonstrates that diacritics have their own etymologies, just like words. They are created according to certain mechanisms (based on iconicity, from letters, from deletion marks, or from disam¬bigu¬a¬tion marks), and when they are borrowed from one language to another, both their form and their function stay the same or change according to general rules and as necessitated by the concrete borrowing situation. However, the authors of hypotheses about the origin of the Czech diacritics do not take this into account. There¬fore, all the hypotheses put forward so far about possible sources of the dot (the later háček) and the stroke (čárka) are evaluated anew (viz., marks in earlier Czech texts, the i tittle, Hebrew, Glagolitic, the Greek acute, the Latin apex, and Old Irish). It turns out that the seemingly most far-fetched idea is by far the most plausible: The Czech diacritics were borrowed from Old Irish.
| Item Type: | Article |
| Creators: | Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code |
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-755338 |
| Identification Number: | 10.58377/slav.2023.4.01 |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Slavia: Časopis pro slovanskou filologii |
| Volume: | 92 |
| Number: | 4 |
| Page Range: | pp. 385-424 |
| Date: | 2023 |
| Publisher: | CEEOL |
| ISSN: | 0037-6736 |
| Language: | English |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 5: Moderne Sprachen und Kulturen > Slavisches Institut |
| Subjects: | Language, Linguistics Other languages |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Keywords Language graphematics; orthography; Jan Hus; De Orthographia Bohemica; háček; caron; čárka; acute accent; apex; overdot; Old Irish; Glagolitic; Hebrew English |
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| Refereed: | Yes |
| URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/75533 |
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