Bulaestian /мала|йеш/ ‘hawthorn, Crataegus laevigata’ as a result of early Romanian-Bucovinian interactions
Journal: Scientific Notes of Vinnytsia Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi State Pedagogical University Series Philology (Linguistics)
Year: 2025

More than fifteen years ago, Bulaestian /мала|йеш/ 'hawthorh, Crataegus laevigata' was introduced into scientific circulation. This phytonym is a non-trivial Romanianism in the dialect of the Bulaestian Ukrainians. Despite its non-triviality, however, over the past time this Romanianism has not become the subject of a special scientific examination, which would allow us to clarify both the conditions of its appearance in the dialect of the Bulaestian Ukrainians, and, in fact, its original Romani