Původ českého brumajzl v širším slovanském kontextu

The subject of the analysis is a group of Slavic words of German origin that denote traditional folk musical instruments. These include the borrowing of older German brumel, or brummle ʻjaw harp, Maultrommelʼ (such as Czech brumle, Upper Sorbian brumla, Polish dialectal brombla, Slovenian archaic and dialectal brȗmda, etc.), as well as the compound Brummeisen (such as Kashubian bremza, etc., Czech brumajzl, Lower Sorbian archaic brumejza, etc.), and the borrowing of early German trum(el), trumb(e)l ʻdrum; noise, dinʼ, which continues as modern German Trommel ʻdrumʼ (e.g., Polish drumla, Slovak drumbľa, Slovenian dialectal drȏmlja, Ukrainian drýmba, etc.). The linguistic environment (dialects of the individual Slavic languages) and the nature of these words (onomatopoeic origin) have created conditions for rich phonetic variability, as well as for mutual formal and semantic influence; very probable is also contamination of the words with initial b- and initial d-. A striking, but typical feature for the names of folk instruments is that several musical instruments can be denoted by the same lexeme.