Basic characteristics of Orbelski Triodion

Abstract

The article gives a full-range description of the manuscript and its main characteristics. The fore-mentioned manuscript is an Old Church Slavonic manuscript of Macedonian edition, dating back to the second part of the 13th century. The manuscript comprises of 241 folios. While the main part of its contents - the part of Triodion - is hymnographic, the rest of it is paroimias, the gospel part and the parts of Tipikon, as well as apocrypha Acta Pilati. The structure of the text reveals that this document is the entire Triodion, and not a division into Triodion and Pentecostarion. The main features of the manuscript, exhibited on all linguistic levels, reveal that Orbelski Triodion in this Macedonian edition of Old Church Slavonic are asfollows: only 6, vocalization 7 > o, 6 > e are used; two nasal signs are used, 4 and 3; j4 also appears; examples of denasalization are rare; the mixing of nasal vowels is present; palatal consonants r, l and + are preserved and the assimilation of voicelessconsonants after the disappearance of weak jers is obvious.On the morphological level, some unproductive declensional types disappear, whereas others expand. Concerning the declension system, one notes an important shift from the synthetic case relationship to the analytic one. Notable is also thesimilarity of some characteristic forms with those of the vernacular, e.g. toi 3 sg. personal pronoun, the use of forms on -m6, but also -me 1 pl. praes., and also some forms of the verb b7yti (si, e). Dual is preserved in rare cases. There is a tendency for participles to be used as finite verbal forms. Orbelski triodion exhibits a variety of lexical forms, many loan words, as well as synonyms of Slavic origin. There are plenty original choices in the word-formationprocess, in particular with regard to the richness of prefixed verbs.On the syntactic level it is worth mentioning that there is a reduplication of prepositions, pronouns, double object constructions – a specific feature of the Balkan languages - at the end of the sentence. Typical of hymnography, the rhythmic factormay at times be considered the cause for reduplicating.