Studies on Slavic Etymology with the Semantic Accent in the Works

The Etymological group of Brno begins the publication of a new series: "Prameny ceske etymologie" ["Sources of Czech etymology"]. The series opens with a col-lection of articles by Z. Sarapatkova, one of the authors of the recently completed Old Church Slavonic etymological dictionary ["Etymologicky slovn & iacute;k jazyka sta-roslovenskeho"]. The collection comprises 20 articles, B. Vykypel's preface, a bibli-ography of the author's works, a bibliography about the author, and indeces. Almost all articles focus on etymological analyses of the OCS lexicon with special attention to semantic aspects, which strengthens the argumentation in support of structural reconstructions. Based on particular etymologies, the following methodical prob-lems of etymology are discussed: the importance and specifics of including rare words and dialect lexicon, and the role of folk etymology in the history of the lexi-con and scholarly etymology.