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CROATIAN TOPONYM Ž D R E L A C AND ITS ROMANCE SEMANTIC PARALLEL IN THE YUGOSLAV ADRIATIC TOPONYMY OF THE MIDDLE AGES

Nikola Jakšić ; Zadar


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Abstract

The Slavic metaphoric toponym Ž d r e l a c is frequently found in the coastel toponymy of the Yugoslav Adriatic, confirmed also by the historic sources from 13th century. As a rule it is applied to donote sea straits having its semantic parallel in T i s n o. The recent investigations into the archives point also to the Romance parallel in the Ž d r e l a c toponym, which this paper is dealing with. The topographic ubiety of two toponyms from the Middle Ages registered in sources as Joche, Jochum, Coch, Zogo, Zogum and the like (in the Magnum and Parvum variants) correspond thoroughly to the Veliki and Mali Ždrebac localities on the island of Ugljan. It is sugested to solve it etimologically from the Latin Jugum, through Jogum = yoke. It is again the question of the metaphoric toponym with an altogether counter-conceptualization for the same subject matter. The strait (tjesnac) is a narrow space or passage connecting two bodies of water (jaram) and also a narrow opening (ždrijelo = gorge, gulf) that separates the same dry-land.

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Hrčak ID:

137664

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/137664

Publication date:

3.7.1989.

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