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Original scientific paper

On the beginnings of the Croatian word for football - nogomet

Ivan Marković orcid id 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


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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

https://hrcak.srce.hr/174591

Publication date:

3.12.2012.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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