Note etimologice

  • Subiect: ZALĂU / ZĂLAU The author supposes that the toponymal Zalău could possibly originate in some Slavic appellatives like „zaláy”, a geographical term meaning „depression between to hills” or „place subject to floods”. He also discusses the Slavic „zolá”, „soil subsequent to the burning of a forest”, a method used in land clearing. The word „zalóv”, denoting a certain amount of game or fish, a catch, is also mentioned. All the variants being proposed have the stress on the second syllable as in Zalău/Zălau. BABA/ BABA The author rejects the thesis according to which the appellative baba could be traced back to a repetition of syllables in children's speech, and admits, for the sense „old woman, grandmother etc.”, the Indo-European form *Bhabha (*abhbha). For „Babă” as a toponym he proposes „baba(nic)e” ”mountain, hill, rock” from the Urartu language, and „paba(u)”, with an identical meaning, from Hurrian.
  • Limba de redactare: română
  • Secţiunea: Toponimie, antroponimie
  • Vezi publicația: Acta Musei Porolissensis: ActaMP
  • Editura: Muzeul Judeţean de Istorie şi Artă din Zalău
  • Loc publicare: Zalău
  • Anul publicaţiei: 1994
  • Referinţă bibliografică pentru nr. revistă: XVIII; anul 1994; subtitlu: Anuarul Muzeului Judeţean de Istorie şi Artă din Zalău
  • Paginaţia: 579-584
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