Antonymy in the Linguistic Words of the Slovene Protestants

Abstract

Protestant non-standard dictionaries include antonyms, in addition to synonyms, in four ways: a) by choice of entries in a short lexicographical text (Krelj's Otročja Biblija, 1566), b) by choice of examples in a grammar (Zimske urice, 1584), c) by adducing sub-entries into a dictionary text (Zimske urice, 1584), č) choice if entries in the glossary to Dalmatin's translation of the Pentateuch (1578) and the Bible (1584). Antonyms are not specially indicated. The conscious citation of them in Zimske urice is evidently indicated by te use of the colon between examples or by the lexicographic organization, as examples of both antonyms ans synonyms come out of alphabetical order. In contrast to synonymic pairs, antonymic entries have both Latin and German glosses. Antonyms with different roots prevail. There is a very limitied selection of prefixes for derrivation of antonymic pairs with the same root.