Церковнославянское наследие в сербских диалектах : существительные среднего рода на -ије

Abstract

The Church Slavonic heritage in Serbian dialects: the neuter gender nouns with the suffix -ije. This paper deals with Church Slavonic (i.e., Serbian-Slavonic or Russian-Slavon- ic) neuter gender nouns with the suffix -ije which are attested in Serbian dialects. They are often phonetically adapted to the characteristics of a given speech (Usjecenije, Sekovanije, Avedenije, vandelije) and sometimes they have female counterparts with the suffix -ija (di- janija, spasenija, stradanija). Most of these words preserve the original meanings of their Church Slavonic etyma (mucenije, pogibenije, prikazanije, stradanije, sagresenije), while some have undergone a shift or even a complete change of the original semantics (zdanije, dijanije, mréenije, nakazanije, napadenije). These nouns mainly indicate expressiveness and are often used in collocations (bozje nakazanije, skoncanije sveta), toasts (na spasenije duse), curses (na usjecenije mu bilo), etc.