Original scientific paper

Skok's "illyrian" etymologies

Ranko Matasović

Abstract

In this paper are collected all words from Petar Skok’s »Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language«, for which a substrate origin had been proposed. The possible sources of such words (“Illyrian”, Thracian, and other substrate languages), as well as various alternative etymologies by which they are derived from Slavic or Romance are discussed. It is shown that most of the words, for which it can be assumed that they were borrowed from some ancient language of Roman Ulyricum, belong to a small set of semantic areas (shepherd’s terminology, zoonims and phytonyms, etc.).

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Hrčak ID:

158643

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/158643

Publication date:

25.5.1995.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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