Professional paper

Doprinijeti or pridonijeti – a step towards the truth

Jurica Budja

Abstract

One verb – meaning ‘to contribute’ – occurs in modern Croatian in two forms: doprinijeti and pridonijeti. The author uses electronic corpora and dictionaries in order to resolve the question which of the two is to be preferred. A conslusion is reached that doprinijeti is the original form, built on the meaning of underived prinijeti, ‘to offer’.

Keywords

doprinijeti; pridonijeti; prinijeti; word formation; semantics

Hrčak ID:

9291

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/9291

Publication date:

26.2.2007.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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