Filologija, No. 11, 1982.
Original scientific paper
THE HYDRONYMIC COMMON NOUN SAVA, THE HYDRONYMS SAVINJA AND DRAVINJA AND THE PROBLEM OF DATING SLOVENE VOWEL REDUCTION
Danijel Alerić
; Zagreb
Abstract
This study concerns the common noun sava, which is alive among Croatians in the interior of Istria, the Slovenian hydronym Savinja, which could be of the same origin, and the Slovenian hydronym Dravinja, which is evidently formed in a similar way to the hydronym Savinja. In connection with these hydronyms it is shown that the reduction of unstressed vowels in the Slovenian language is an ancient phonetic phenomenon.
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Hrčak ID:
157462
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Publication date:
20.12.1982.
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