Sanctifying and Sanctioning: The Serbo-Croatian osveta, osvetiti (se) Reconsidered
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The Serbo-Croatian osveta ‘revenge, vengeance’, osvetiti ‘to revenge, avenge somebody,
~ se ‘to avenge on, avenge oneself’ is generally considered to derive from Common Slavic
*sveto ‘holy, saint, sacred’, with some difficulties in interpreting its semantic development.
This article offers a thorough analysis of the words in question, focusing on their earliest
Old Serbian attestations and resulting in the conclusion that osveta was probably calqued
on Latin sanctio. If true, it provides an early instance of the reception of Roman law among
the Southern Slavs.
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Serbo-Croatian / Slavonic / Common Slavic / Latin / revenge / legal terms / law / Roman / customarySource:
Etymologica Slavica, 2019, 146, 181-190Publisher:
- Warszawa : Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
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- Etymological Research into the Serbian language and compiling the Etymological dictionary of the Serbian language (ERSJ) (RS-MESTD-Basic Research (BR or ON)-178007)
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Институт за српски језик САНУ / Institute for the Serbian Language of SASATY - JOUR AU - Loma, Aleksandar PY - 2019 UR - https://dais.sanu.ac.rs/123456789/7767 AB - The Serbo-Croatian osveta ‘revenge, vengeance’, osvetiti ‘to revenge, avenge somebody, ~ se ‘to avenge on, avenge oneself’ is generally considered to derive from Common Slavic *sveto ‘holy, saint, sacred’, with some difficulties in interpreting its semantic development. This article offers a thorough analysis of the words in question, focusing on their earliest Old Serbian attestations and resulting in the conclusion that osveta was probably calqued on Latin sanctio. If true, it provides an early instance of the reception of Roman law among the Southern Slavs. PB - Warszawa : Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk T2 - Etymologica Slavica T1 - Sanctifying and Sanctioning: The Serbo-Croatian osveta, osvetiti (se) Reconsidered SP - 181 EP - 190 VL - 146 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_7767 ER -
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Loma, A.. (2019). Sanctifying and Sanctioning: The Serbo-Croatian osveta, osvetiti (se) Reconsidered. in Etymologica Slavica Warszawa : Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk., 146, 181-190. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_7767
Loma A. Sanctifying and Sanctioning: The Serbo-Croatian osveta, osvetiti (se) Reconsidered. in Etymologica Slavica. 2019;146:181-190. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_7767 .
Loma, Aleksandar, "Sanctifying and Sanctioning: The Serbo-Croatian osveta, osvetiti (se) Reconsidered" in Etymologica Slavica, 146 (2019):181-190, https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_7767 .