About studying the specialized lexicon from the old Romanian language

The present paper presents the elements of structure and method used in the realization of a larger project that aims to analyze the specialized vocabulary in the Nordic area from the ancient era. The objective is to create a working tool in the research of the specialized lexicon that belongs to the legal-administrative register in the period 1601–1780. The research focuses mainly on the Moldavian subdialect, but covers the entire northern area. The most interesting aspect of the paper concerns the particularly sensitive character of the lexicon to historical-social mutations. Constant oppositions and historically determined oppositions are registered. They represent the reflection of a real situation and are characterized by a limited circulation and validity. A certain stage of development of the lexicon of a language is thus individualized, within a regional subsystem of it.