Publication details
Exotické toponymické komponenty ve frazeologii (na materiálu češtiny, chorvatštiny a bulharštiny)
| Title in English | Exotic Toponymic Components in Phraseology (on Material of Czech, Croatian and Bulgarian) |
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| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Philologica. Zborník Filozofickej fakulty Univerzity Komenského, LXXVII |
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| Keywords | exotic toponyms; toponymic components in phraseology |
| Description | The paper analyses Czech, Croatian and Bulgarian phrasemes with exotic toponymic components. The most frequent are the toponyms associated with Oriente – biblical (oikonyms Sodom, Gomor, Babylon) and non-biblical (oikonym Diyarbakir, quasichoronym Tramtaria, choronym India). „Non-oriental“ exotic toponyms are connected with Africa (choronym Sahara), Asia (choronyms Siberia and Japan) and South America (choronym Patagonia). Exotic toponyms of biblical origin are exclusively oikonymous, while all other examples (except for one exception) are belong to the group of the choronyms. We suppose this is because the biblical stories (and hence the biblical toponymy) contain many names not only of supraregional or regional but also of local character, which subsequently penetrated into the phraseology of different languages, whereas in the case of non-biblical exotic toponyms people remember more easily the name of a larger territorial unit (region, territory, country, imperium, island etc.), which can then be part of a phraseological unit. |