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.
Keywords:
Serbo-Croatian / Slavonic / Common Slavic / Latin / revenge / legal terms / law / Roman / customary
Source:
Etymologica Slavica, 2019, 146, 181-190
Publisher:
Warszawa : Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
TY - 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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author = "Loma, Aleksandar",
year = "2019",
abstract = "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.",
publisher = "Warszawa : Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk",
journal = "Etymologica Slavica",
title = "Sanctifying and Sanctioning: The Serbo-Croatian osveta, osvetiti (se) Reconsidered",
pages = "181-190",
volume = "146",
url = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_7767"
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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 .
