Original scientific paper
On the beginnings of the Croatian word for football - nogomet
Ivan Marković
orcid.org/0000-0003-0005-5768
; Department of Croatian language and literature, Faculty of humanities and social sciences at the University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The Croatian word nogomet, as a substitute for the English word football, was coined by Slavko Rutzner Radmilović in 1893/1894. The paper outlines its acquisition and the spread of its use based on Zagreb newspaper and magazine references at the turn of the 20th century. Assumptions are also made about the former and the current status of Croatian philology, as well as the attitudes of the Croatian language community towards the standard language culture, to the linguistic borrowing, loan words, new coinages, and professional terminology.
Keywords
neologism; football; sport; terminology; linguistic borrowing; Croatian language
Hrčak ID:
174591
URI
Publication date:
3.12.2012.
Visits: 4.368 *