LES TERMES QUI DÉSIGNENT DES FLUIDES CORPORELS DANS L'HEXAMERON ET UNE EXPOSITION EXACTE DE LA FOI ORTHODOXE DE JEAN EXARQUE.

The article is dedicated to the terms used to denominate bodily fluids in the works of the first Bulgarian naturalist. It is part of an extensive project dedicated to Medieval Bulgarian terminology. The results of the project are presented in the dictionary (ТРЙE / TRJE). The object of the analysis are the terms used to designate the four fluids (кръвь ‘blood’, глѣнъ ‘mucus’, жлътаꙗ кроучина 'yellow bile&' and чрьнаꙗ кроучина that compose the human body. The linguistic material is collected from Hexameron (Aitzetmüller 1958) and De fide Ortodoxa (Sadnik 1967) by John the Exarch. The analysis is based on the concept that terminology is not an autonomous system, but is a subsystem of the literary language. The analysis of the terms is based on their meaning and content. The motivation of the terms is influenced by the Hippocratic doctrine of humor, according to which the abundance of a fluid has an influence on human behavior. At the end of the article, we have concluded that the terms кръвь, глѣнъ, жлътаꙗ кроучина and чрьнаꙗ кроучина are not the contemporary names used for corporal fluids blood, bile, mucus. They are metaphoric names of substances that connect the human body with nature and that rule human emotions and behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]