Open AccessThe Indo-European Voice of Barbarians
Author(s) -
Lucian Bâgiu,
Paraschiva Bâgiu
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
swedish journal of romanian studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 2003-0924
DOI - 10.35824/sjrs.v1i1.17255
Subject(s) - romanian , etymology , linguistics , focus (optics) , realm , history , philosophy , archaeology , physics , optics
In our essay we shall focus on the analyses (cum grano salis) of a limited number of words from the introductory pages of the novel Barbarians (such as gorgan, grui, crap, fală, sfadă, etc.). Here, more than elsewhere the author makes use of a good amount of rather strange words in his stylistic attempt to conceive the realm of the Dacians. We shall make an analysis of the etymology of these rather uncommon words as designated in Vinereanu's Etymological Dictionary of Romanian Language (2008) (unlike the traditional Romanian dictionaries, a different vision). From the (probable) linguistic discrepancies and stylistic preferences, findings will be drawn and novelties will be suggested, concerned with Romanian language and culture.