ABOUT SOME LEXICAL FEATURES OF THE TRANSCARPATHIAN CHARTER OF 1404

Journal section: Research articles
Language: Ukrainian

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37919/3083-6212.2024.1.128-136

Ruslana KOTSA

Candidate of Sciences in Philology, Senior Researcher in the Department of History of the Ukrainian Language and Onomastics, Institute of the Ukrainian Language of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2074-2250
e-mail: rgomonai@ukr.net

The charter of Voivode Balk’s sons about the transfer of the land to the Hrushiv Monastery from May 1, 1404 is a unique monument of the old Ukrainian business language from Transcarpathia, which is stored in the National Archives of Hungary. Many scientists, including A. Petrov, N. Iorga, G. Herovskyi, I. Pankevych, F. Tykhyi, K. Halas, M. Antoshyn and others, studied this document.

The article analyzes three lexemes (оурик, азъ, вѣдомо), recorded in the Transcarpathian charter of 1404. Their semantics are established, stylistic and syntactic functions and peculiarities of use in the mentioned document in comparison with documents from other Ukrainian territories and neighboring offices with Transcarpathia are determined.

The word оурик ‘heritage’ is Hungarianism (Hungarian örök). It is used in a form designed under the influence of the Romanian language and reflects the peculiarities of the Maramures Ukrainian dialects.

The form of the pronoun 1 person singular азъ is used in the typical initial formula of ancient Ukrainian and old Ukrainian charters се азъ. Wallachian offices and canonical texts also influenced its use.

The scribe of the Transcarpathian charter used the expression даємо вѣдомо. It was characteristic, though not very common, in the old Ukrainian documentation.

The study of the vocabulary of ancient monuments makes it possible not only to more accurately describe the language system of a particular period, but also to determine the cultural and socio-historical conditions in which the people and their language developed.

Keywords: lexis, semantics, old Ukrainian language, Transcarpathian charter of 1404.

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