VOL. 60, BOOK 1, PART А, 2022, pp. 298 – 306 Full text (Bg)
Author: Katerina Tomova
Affiliation: Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv
Abstract
The current text juxtaposes and analyses the Bulgarian and Czech names for colours. The focus is only on those which are formally expressed through complex compound adjectives. An attempt is made, with the help of the survey method, to establish to what extent their semantics in the consciousness of the
language bearers coincides with the common understanding of the linguistic literature. The article seeks to discover the reasons for the registered substantial imbalance between the dictionary interpretation and the interpretation in real usage of most of the researched entities.
Key words: color name, Bulgarian language, Czech language
