Original scientific paper
Non-Slavic appellatives in Croatian and Macedonian toponymy
Ljubica Stankovska
Abstract
Historically social and cultural circumstances in which the Croatian and Macedonian languages have developed and, on the other hand, language contact with non-Slavic Balcan languages, actually a particular interrelation, influenced, among other things, the development of their lexical systems in which many lexical borrowings penetrated after infiltration. Such linguistic pattern affected the development of Croatian and Macedonian toponymy in a particular way, which integrated a series of lexical elements with various substrate and abstrate non- Slavic layers as a result of liguistic interference. Attention shall thus be paid to several non-Slavic appellatives which concurrently appear in Croatian and Macedonian toponymy and which are interesting in lexical terms as well as in terms of the appellatives’ distribution.
Keywords
Croatian toponymy; Macedonian toponymy; lexical borrowings; language contacts
Hrčak ID:
168565
URI
Publication date:
14.6.2003.
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