FEATURED NEOLOGISM:

“Vyzenovat se” (czech)
finite, reflexive verb, ca. since 2018.
To calm down, to get rid of stress. Derived from the Buddhist term “Zen”

“Vyzenovaný” (czech)
Adjective, ca. since 2018.
Calm, composed. The result of the process denoted by the verb „vyzenovat se“.

Zuzana Hildenbrand works at the Department of Romance Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc, as a teacher of French linguistics, practical seminars in translation and interpreting and French as foreign language. Her research focuses mainly on the problem of lexical adoptions. In the past, she participated in the EmpNéo project led by prof. J.-F. Sablayrolles.