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==Balkan== | |||
===Etymology=== | |||
Cf. Aromanian [[wikt:cuvendã]] (“word”), derived from Latin [[wikt:conventum]] (“coming together, gathering”) or Albanian [[wikt:kuvend]] (“convention, assembly, gathering”), and also Romanian [[wikt:cuvânt]] (“word”). The Greek [[wikt:κουβέντα]] (kouvénta, “conversation, chat; word phrase”) also developed this sense. | |||
The semantic shift from "meeting, gathering, assembly" to "word" may have been due to the importance of assemblies and gatherings where words and ideas were exchanged historically; this also affected Macedonian [[wikt:збор]] (zbor, “word”), which derives from the Slavic word for "assembly, meeting, gathering" (through a process of regional linguistic convergence known as the Balkan sprachbund, due to the close interaction of these languages' speakers). The Aromanian synonym [[wikt:zbor]] was a likely loanword from this Macedonian word. This semantic shift is not found in most other Slavic language cognates; cf. Russian [[wikt:съборъ]] (sʺbor) and Old Church Slavonic [[wikt:съборъ]] (sŭborŭ, “meeting, council”), and also the Macedonian doublet [[wikt:собор]] (sobor, “gathering”). | |||
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