Folia onomastica Croatica, No. 20, 2011.
Preliminary communication
Historical attestations of the anthroponymy of Brdovečko Prigorje in mediaeval and early modern sources
Branimir Brgles
orcid.org/0000-0003-3114-742X
; Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
The article focuses on a specific geographical region, Brdovečko prigorje, its inhabitants (speakers of a kajkavian-ikavian dialect) and their anthroponomy in historical sources. The oldest analyzed historical sources have yielded a vast number of examples of Croatian personal names, pre-surname forms and surnames. Evidence of other language influences has also been found (firstly German, followed by Hungarian and Turkish). In this article, the author presents only a part of the analyzed material. By analyzing historical sources, the author has built a database of some 12,000 units (a unit consists of the following elements: personal name, pre-surname form or surname, year, place name, etc.) Priority has been given to those surnames that reoccur in the documents in historical continuity from the 15th century on. The author also attempts to portray the development of the name-surname form in Brdovečko prigorje.
Keywords
onomastics; anthroponymy; kaikavian-ikavian speakers; medieval and early modern historical sources; medieval and early modern migrations
Hrčak ID:
81915
URI
Publication date:
31.5.2012.
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