Original scientific paper

Microtoponymy of Bačka Croats in Hungary

Živko Mandić

Abstract

The article is a result of many years of field work in collecting place-names
in the villages of South Hungary inhabited by Backa Croats. For more than two
decades the author has collected toponomastic data on site, but also from
archives, historical records, linguistic and other sources. He collected and
analysed the microtoponymy of all Croatian settlements in South Hungary. The
second part of the article is dedicated to the classification of place-names according
to form, motivation, and origin. According to form, the author classified the
place-names as simple, composite, and compound names. According to the
meaning of the basic stem, he classified the microtoponyms derived from personal
names, geographical terms, metaphoric names, fithonymic, zoonymic, etc.
The supplement includes a complete accentuated register of place-names and
a list of informants.

Keywords

Croatian toponymy in Hungary; microtoponymy; Bačka Croats Bunjevci; place-names

Hrčak ID:

180366

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/180366

Publication date:

18.6.2002.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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