Folia onomastica Croatica, No. 14, 2005.
Original scientific paper
Croatian Names of Inhabited Places in Hungary
Živko Mandić
Abstract
This paper is a result of long-time research of the author. Owing to the effort
invested by many researchers and archivists in the corpus collected from over a
hundred informants in eighty-two settlements, future generations will inherit an
exhaustive corpus of Croatian elements in Hungarian names of settlements. In
sixteen Hungarian counties nine hundred and fifty settlements were found inhabited
predominantly by Hungarian population, but bearing the Croatian name.
The corpus is also interesting because today these names are only extant in the
language of the eldest generation. The data (villages, towns, hamlets) are classified
according to counties, i.e. the Hungarian alphabet. The official Hungarian
name of the settlement is followed by the Croatian variant, and the so-called
ethnic (male and female form of the inhabitant’s name) and ktetic (adjective
derived from the name of the settlement). And finally, the parentheses identify
the place where the data were found and collected. The Croatian population still
lives in the settlements marked by the asterisk. All names are provided with
Croatian accents. The materials collected from the literature and archives, naturally,
are not provided with accents.
In the second part of the paper the author classifies the collected material in
accordance with sound changes, word formation and endings.
Keywords
names of inhabitants; adjectives from names of settlement; sound changes
Hrčak ID:
7666
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Publication date:
24.1.2006.
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