Lexical Notes II: 3. Is There an Adjective opačin in John Chrysostom’s Life? 4. Interpretation of toitu in Mary of Egypt’s Life
The second instalment of this series of lexical notes consists of notes three and four, offering corrections to the treatment of two hapax legomena in the Dictionary of the Seventeenth-Century Written Bulgarian Language on a Vernacular Basis (2013). Note three argues that in the early modern Bulgarian version of John Chrysostom’s Life there is a noun opačina which means ‘misfortune, ordeal, hardship’ and compares the seventeenth-century usage with that by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors. Note four shows that toitu in Mary of Egypt’s Life is the dative case form of To(v)it ‘Tobias’.
Key words: Bulgarian seventeenth-century vernacular, history of the Bulgarian lexicon.
