Lexics of Foreign Origin in the Cuba’s Collection of Poems From 1893

Abstract

This research paper deals with the lexical level of the linguistic structure of Songs and undersongs from Bosnia and Herzegovina, collections of lyric poems, ballads and romances that represent a result of the Czech melograph Ludvík Cuba’s four-month collection work in 1893. The aim of the paper is to record and quantify the lexicon of foreign origin in this collection of poems in order to create an insight into inclusion of this lexicon in oral lyrical and lyric-epic creations, and to classify words of foreign origin according to thematic units in order to establish thematic the most numerous borrowers in the Cuba’s collection.

It is important to note that orientalisms were not the subject of this research since the words of oriental origin are perceived as native, autochthonous words that more faithfully reflect tradition.