Open AccessKéssás vagy Kéffás? Öröklődő szövegromlás legrégibb csízióinkban
Author(s) -
Tamás Forgács
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
magyar nyelv/magyar vadászlap
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1215-6159
pISSN - 0025-0228
DOI - 10.18349/magyarnyelv.2020.3.309
Subject(s) - apostle , minor (academic) , verb , philosophy , history , art , theology , literature , humanities , classics , linguistics
The oldest copies of Hungarian Cisiojani contain the name forms Késsás and Késást, which are likely to be the corrupted forms of Kéfás, the Hungarian form of the apostle Peter’s Aramaic name (Cephas ‘rock’). The corrupted forms with s, possibly associated with the now obsolete verb késál(kodik) ‘strive, struggle’, seem to have been carried over with minor variations in later copies, including the unique késázá form of the first Hungarian printed calendar. This reinforces the opinion, expressed as early as in HeinriCH 1880, that the authors of some of the Hungarian Cisiojani made use of earlier calendars in verse.