Ondřej Bláha, Robert Dittmann, Karel Komárek, Daniel Polakovič, Lenka Uličná: Canaanite Glosses in Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts Related to the Czech Lands

Abstract

The review presents the extensive study of Canaanite glosses, i.e. words and expressions in the old Czech that have been preserved in a number of Hebrew manuscripts dated to the 13th and 14th centuries. The study made by the Czech academic experts proves the glosses to be an important source to the most ancient stage of development of the Czech language (lexis, morphology, syntax).

Keywords

• Hebrew studies
• Jews in the Czech lands 10th – 13th centuries
• language situation
• language in contact
• old Czech language