Professional paper

On Croatian female and double family names

Alemko Gluhak ; Zavod za lingvistička istraživanja HAZU

Abstract

In recent past, Croatian female last names such as those ending in -ka were
oftem used for married women (Nikolicka), in -ova/-eva for unmarried women
(Nikoliceva) had some other forms; earlier a genitive form was used, too
(Nikolica). It seems that now the neutral form of female last names is that in
-ova/-eva. There are some exceptions, such as last names in -a (Rukavina).
The Croatian law on names and orthography manuals deal with some cases of
double and multiple personal and last names, but they do not take into consideration
all possibilities which can be found.

Keywords

family names; Croatian

Hrčak ID:

180364

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/180364

Publication date:

18.6.2002.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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