Os atavios vocabulares de Ismael de Lima Coutinho: um estudo do conto A pedra lisa

Abstract

This work presents a study on the vocabulary of the tale A Pedra Lisa, from the collection of texts Contos Ingênuos, by the philologist Ismael de Lima Coutinho. The tale embraces a range of words that causing strangeness to the textual comprehension as a result of the differentiated vocabulary. With the purpose of studying such words, we investigate their formation and etymology with the objective to knowing if they are part of the loanword that have been added to the lexicon of the Portuguese Language along throughout its historical formation. In the study conducted, we found unusual words: loanword, derived words, latinisms and scholarly terms, constituting a vocabulary that is certainly little known by many readers and of almost any use, nowadays. The research becomes relevant for those who wants to enlarge the lexical knowledges, mainly the study of the vocabulary in the work of the author; to know a little of the history of formation of the Portuguese language; and to understand how much the dictionaries are important to maintain the memory of a language and to realize how the words become expressive in the story, besides the forms of vocabulary expansion presents in the literary production of the author