Review article
Diversity of Old-Croatian names for seaweeds and maritime nature in the Adriatic islands
A. Ž. Lovrić
M. Rac
M. H. Mileković
Abstract
By a consistent registering of vernacular names for algae, we have documented 156 marine phytonyms along eastern Adriatic for macroalgae and Zosteraceae, including a half of local synonyms between different islands and mainland areas, and 82 names for different marine taxa. Therefore Croatian vernacular names of marine algae are the most numerous within Europe, their richness being subequal to the maximal one for Japanese algae. A minor amount of these marine phytonyms are Romanic loans (1/5 to 1/3), half of them are of Slavonic origin, and the rest are pre-Romance-non-Slavic archaisms of early Liburnian and Proto-Indo-European origin. The poorest stock of algal names occurs in the Dalmatian mainland with 9 Shtokavian phytonyms, and the more abundant Chakavian ones we have registered in the islands: the richest ones in southeastern Krk with 79 marine phytonyms, 25 in Rab, 19 in Dugi Otok, 15 in Vis, 12 in @irje island, and the poorest are Mljet and Lastovo islands and the Velebit coast with 3–5 marine phytonyms.
Keywords
ethnobotany; phytonyms; algae; Adriatic; seashore; islands; Slavic; Romanic; Liburnian
Hrčak ID:
13448
URI
Publication date:
31.12.2002.
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