Original scientific paper

Appellatives in Toponymy of the Stolac Area

Helena Dragić ; Faculty of Philosophy, University of Mostar

Abstract

Stolac is a little town in Lower Herzegovina and the center of the town district of the same name in the Hercegovacko-Neretvanska County. Since the Stolac area, as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina in general, was not systematically researched by onomasticists, a more thorough approach was necessary. Thus this paper employs mostly fi eld research work and an interdisciplinary approach. The paper quotes and philologically interprets twenty two appellatives in Stolac toponymy based on fi eld research work. These appellatives are found in over one hundred and thirty toponyms from this region.Most appellatives are of Indo-European origin. Many appellatives are of Greek and Latin origin. There is also a number of appellatives of Turkish origin.

Keywords

etymology; Indo-European language; semantics; Old Church Slavic language; Croatian language

Hrčak ID:

99753

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/99753

Publication date:

26.3.2013.

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