Classification of Bosnian Lexems in Makbuli Arif

Abstract

On the basis of transliterary versions of the dictionary Makbuli Arif by Muhamed Hevaji Uskufi (1631) this paper deals with the division of Bosnian lexems according to various criteria: the relation of time content towards the use and the meaning of lexems; territorial conditioning of the lexems; general lexems and book lexems; general lexis in relation to idiolects and neologisms. Also, the paper analyses Turkish lexems that Hevaji introduced as Bosnian, and old loan-words from some European languages. The paper also treats the lexicological status of seven personal names mentioned in Makbuli Arif. It is stressed that the most introduced lexems are the Dictionary of general character. Of particularly analyzed types the most number is in the archaisms category, which indicates to inner-linguistic reasons of disapperance of lexems in the period of following of the development of Bosnian lexical treasure in the span of about four centuries. Also, the analysis shows a particularly interesting layer of idiolectic neologisms, but also lexems that are dialectally or regionally represented.