<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The analysis of nouns which take a -<italic>ka</italic> morpheme but their meaning has nothing to do with the idea of smallness, not even from a historical perspective, can be problematic, and that is why one is faced with the possibility that this formant (due to the influence of a foreign language) is simply a noun suffix and is in no connection with the diminutive – it is only its homonym.</p><p>The present paper deals with those entry words of the Transylvanian Hungarian Historical Dictionary which have a diminutive suffix in their structure; however, the meaning of the derivative does not include the element ‘small/little’.</p></abstract>

The analysis of nouns which take a -ka morpheme but their meaning has nothing to do with the idea of smallness, not even from a historical perspective, can be problematic, and that is why one is faced with the possibility that this formant (due to the influence of a foreign language) is simply a noun suffix and is in no connection with the diminutive – it is only its homonym.The present paper deals with those entry words of the Transylvanian Hungarian Historical Dictionary which have a diminutive suffix in their structure; however, the meaning of the derivative does not include the element ‘small/little’.

Lexicalized Diminutives in the Transylvanian Hungarian Historical Dictionary

Department of Hungarian and General Linguistics

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

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The analysis of nouns which take a -ka morpheme but their meaning has nothing to do with the idea of smallness, not even from a historical perspective, can be...

Lexicalized Diminutives in the Transylvanian Hungarian Historical Dictionary

Published Online: Feb 25, 2019

Page range: 179 - 186

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2018-0035

Keywords
Transylvanian Hungarian Historical Dictionary, diminutive suffixes, lexicalized derivatives

© 2018 Borbála Zsemlyei, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Lexicalized Diminutives in the Transylvanian Hungarian Historical Dictionary

Published Online: Feb 25, 2019

Page range: 179 - 186

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2018-0035

KeywordsTransylvanian Hungarian Historical Dictionary, diminutive suffixes, lexicalized derivatives

© 2018 Borbála Zsemlyei, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Transylvanian Hungarian Historical Dictionary, diminutive suffixes, lexicalized derivatives