This work is the third and last part of a thoroughgoing study of Hungarian loanwords in Slovak, of which the first two volumes have been published under the auspices of the Scuola Superiore di Lin-gue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttori (I (A-K), Trieste 1999) and the Dipartimento di Scienze del Linguaggio, dell'Interpetazione e della Traduzione (II (L-R), Trieste 2002). It is the first complete research work covering this subject. Previous studies have hitherto confined themselves to examining only a part of the lexicon or specific semantic fields, whereas L. Rocchi's study encompasses the entire lexical heritage of the Slovak language, including obsolete, regional and dialect terms. Of the Hungarian words from which the Slovak terms originate, etymological illustrations are provided and where these themselves are loans indications given as to their immediate and remote sources.
