The variety and richness of words for relatives in Slovene

Word Borrowing in Slovene Dialects in the Semantic Fields ‘Human Body’, ‘Relatives’ and ‘Friends’

“…4 The SLA was established by Fran Ramovš in 1934. Ramovš also produced an outline of an atlas, a special questionnaire and a network of data-points (DPs) 5 for the SLA in 1934-1945; since then, this has been used in field research (still ongoing). Proper preparation for the SLA started after the Second World War at the Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language; in the second half of the 20 th century, many papers, studies and books were written based on an analysis of the SLA dialect material.…”

“…csont 'bone' (in Pannonian dialect group); krov < *krovъ 'roof ' . 5. Lexemes from selected semantic fields 7…”

“…See lexemes in chapter 5.2 5. The letters 'DP' in front of the three-digit number indicate the data-point number in the SLA network, i.e.…”