Where Did a Sarancha Fly into the Slavonic Bible From?

Affiliation:
Moscow State Pedagogical University
Institute for Slavic Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences)
St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University, Russian State Library (Russia, Moscow)
Address: Moscow, Russian Federation

Journal name

Russkaya Rech’

Edition

Issue 1

Pages

21-37

Abstract

The essay is devoted to the history of the late-medieval Turkic loanword sarancha’s emergence in the Eastern Slavonic languages (later the word was adopted by Polish and Czech). Its source was the Turkic (Old Kipchak) Targum known in the Jewish manuscript from the 1470s–80s; this MS has a list of clean bush-crickets (Leviticus 11:22) with the marginal gloss sarynčqa which appeared afterwards as sarancha (or sarantsa) in the margins and text of the Edited Slavonic-Russian Pentateuch from the 15th century. The word was borrowed from Turkic allegedly on the Eastern Slavonic lands of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. This Turkic loanword exactly has been fixed as the main name of the insect in the subsequent history of Eastern and West Slavonic, while the later editors and publishers kept the old Slavonic word prug in the Church Slavonic Bible. Only in the Russian Synodal Translation of the Bible from the 19th century, the word sarancha became to use.

Keywords

Bible, Church Slavonic, animals’ names, Karaim, Edited Pentateuch

Received

24.01.2020

Publication date

01.04.2020

Number of characters

22378

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GOST	Grishchenko A. Where Did a Sarancha Fly into the Slavonic Bible From? // Russkaya Rech’ – 2020. – Issue 1 C. 21-37 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/rusrech/s013161170008276-2-1-en (circulation date: 27.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S013161170008276-2
MLA	Grishchenko, Alexander "Where Did a Sarancha Fly into the Slavonic Bible From?." Russkaya Rech’ 1 (2020):21-37. DOI: 10.31857/S013161170008276-2
APA	Grishchenko A. (2020). Where Did a Sarancha Fly into the Slavonic Bible From?. Russkaya Rech’ (1), pp.21-37 DOI: 10.31857/S013161170008276-2

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