Professional paper

Names of fish species in the speech of the island of Murter

Edo Juraga orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-4616 ; Osnovna škola MURTERSKI ŠKOJI

Abstract

This article discusses names of fish in Murter, on the homonymous island of Murter. 147 names have been recorded for 103 fish species. Along with names of Roman origin (such as: arbun, argentin, bilizma, kavala, lačerna, morena, palamida, pagar, rombo, srdela, špar, ušata), there are also widely spread Croatian ichthyologic synonyms, such as: kovač, zubatac, ovčica, golub, pauk, modruj, but also autochthonous, sometimes very peculiar names, such as: banjača, čangaj, čančonica, pizdino pokrivalo, tarišupak, vražja mati, and others. While appointing names to fish, the people used zoonymes (ovčica, pas, pauk, prasac, vo) and ornithological synonyms (golub, kokot, lastavica, pivac, vrana). Fish were also named by their prevailing color (bilica, crnjul, modrak, zlatan, žutica), by objects from everyday life which reminded people of forms of some fish (jagla, kaiš, mlat, samar, šilo, škeram, špigeta), or by some characteristic or a feature (balavica, kostej / kostij, očada, oštruja, piloto, vardabuž / vadabuž, zli pogled / zlopogled).

Keywords

Murter ichthyologic synonyms; čače; čangaj; podlanica; špar

Hrčak ID:

110687

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/110687

Publication date:

11.11.2013.

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