Towards the Problem of Lexical Moravisms: дръколь, дрьколь, дръколъ

Abstract

The study continues research in the field of false moravisms in the Old Bulgarian manuscripts. The word дръколь has a fairly long history of use in the Old Bulgarian monuments. Already in the ancient era, before the fall of the reduced vowels in the Old Bulgarian language, a variant дръголь appears and spreads in Middle Bulgarian manuscripts, its continuant probably is Bulgarian dialect word др̀ъгол. Continuants of *drъcolь are presented in South Slavonic languages, while Czech preserved derived from *drъcolь words ascending to дръколне and дръколна. Gospel text of the Old Czech Bible has nothing to do with the translation of Cyril and Methodius. There is no reason to consider дръкол as moravism.