In: Kultúra slova, vol. 57, no. 2
Ľubor Králik
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Year, pages: 2023, 76 - 81
Language: slo
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Slovak language, etymology, interpretation of hapax legomena, Hungarian loanwords in Slovak
Article type: Štúdie a články
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The author discusses the word ketefete attested in a collection of historical legends from the Central Slovakian region of Turiec (hapax legomenon with unclear meaning used in a culinary context). The word seems to be of Hungarian origin, cf. Hungarian kötyfötöl "to mix, stir; to cook badly (without knowledge, in a hurry, while combining all kinds of ingredients, etc.)" (probably onomatopoeic). In the author’s opinion, it may be either a loanword from an unattested Hungarian *kötyföt (supposed nominal back-formation from kötyfötöl) or a back-formation from an assumed Slovak verb *keťfetelovať (< Hungarian kötyfötöl). In Slovak, the noun ketefete (with unclear morphological attributes: indeclinable neuter noun? plural form of a masculine *ketefeť?) was probably modified phonetically on the model of reduplicative words.
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Králik, Ľ. 2023. Ketefete: úvahy o jednom hapax legomenon. In Kultúra slova, vol. 57, no.2, pp. 76-81. ISSN 0023-5202.
APA:
Králik, Ľ. (2023). Ketefete: úvahy o jednom hapax legomenon. Kultúra slova, 57(2), 76-81. ISSN 0023-5202.
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