IZ ARHAIČNOG DOMAĆEG LEKSIKA U SJEVERNIM ČAKAVSKIM GOVORIMA

FROM THE ARCHAIC LEXICON IN THE NORTHERN CHAKAVIAN SUBDIALECTS Recent researches into the Croatian, Serbian and Slavic lexicon have established a considerable number of Chakavian archaisms and lexic Chakavianisms of Slavic origin. So far, however, not all such Chakavian lexemes have been singled out and accurately explained. There are still lexemes of that type of older origin which have not yet been studied enough from the dialectologic and ethnographic viewpoint. The same may be said about the new ones published recently in larger and smaller Chakavian vocabularies. It is beyond all question that one of the most important tasks of the Chakavian dialectology and the Serbo-Croatian historical lexicology and etymology is to determine the Proto-Slavic lexic layer and lexic archaisms in the Chakavian lexical wealth. The realization of such researches would be of great significance for a deeper understanding of the Serbo-Croatian lexical history and for the reconstruction of the Proto-Slavic layer of the Slavic lexicon. The author has provided this paper with five supplements referring to the relics of the archaic popular lexicon in the northern (Istria, Kvarner and Littoral) subdialects. These Chakavian subdialects (Istria and Kvarner is particular) have preserved a rather great number of ancient popular lexemes, very often unknown in other Chakavian subdialects