Folia onomastica Croatica, No. 5, 1996.
Original scientific paper
On one type of the Split family names
Živko Bjelanović
Abstract
The paper deals with the family names of Druzeic, Koceic, Tvrdeic and Viceic type. Besides in Split these family names appear also on central Dalmatian islands. The concordance of regional distribution and linguistic features is not accidental.
In order to explain the phonotactic peculiarity of -ei- element which appears on both sides of the morpheme limit, the author presents the formative structure of these family names and the original value of the segment preceding the suffix -ic. From his study of the 17th and 18th century documents the author concludes that the original version of these names was Druzeljic, Koceljic, Tvrdeljic and Viceljic. In central Dalmatia Ij became j in cakavian dialect, and sonant j disappeared from the morpheme limit because of its reduced pronunciation between two vowels.
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158653
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Publication date:
25.5.1996.
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