О арготизму киснути 'сести'

Abstract

The verb kisnuti ‘to sit’ as attested in the Serbian craftsmen’s secret languages has

parallels in Bulgarian craftsmen’s argot. This word has hitherto been treated in the

SANU Dictionary (PCA) as a homonym of kisnuti ‘to become wet, damp; to become

sour’. The aim of present paper is to show that the argot word can also be interpreted

as a result of semantic development of the standard language word through a dialectal

mediation.