RUSIZMI U RJEČNICIMA BOSANSKOG JEZIKA / RUSSIAN WORDS IN THE DICTIONARIES OF THE BOSNIAN LANGUAGE

Abstract

The paper analyses Russian words in the dictionaries of the contemporary Bosnian language: Dictionary of the Bosnian Language (2010) by S. Halilović, I. Palić and A. Šehović, published by the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo, and Dictionary of the Bosnian Language (2007) by I. Čedić et al., published by the Language Institute in Sarajevo. The aforementioned dictionaries rely on lexicographical works created within the framework of the common Serbo-Croatian language, in which inconsistencies in the definitions and descriptions of the Russian words had already been observed, and this situation was also confirmed in the analysed dictionaries of the Bosnian language. In addition, the digitized written heritage enables clarification of the status and origin of certain lexemes, such as the noun rabota, which in almost all consulted dictionaries is determined as a Russian word, even though this lexeme has been present in the Bosnian written tradition, for instance, since the Middle Ages. Also, based on an examination of their etymology and linguistic and cultural circumstances, the words boršč and kozak (Kozaci) can be removed from the list of Russian words, because they are from the Ukrainian language. The analysis also established that the dictionaries of the Bosnian language do not contain any Russian words that are very present in different styles of the Bosnian language – babuška, duma/Duma, perestrojka, kremlj/Kremlj, rublja, etc. In this sense, this paper can contribute to the future definition of the status of Russian words in Bosnian, as well as in Middle South Slavic lexicography.