Original scientific paper

Slovenian Dialect jeraj ‘Gavun, Atherina’

Metka Furlan orcid.org/0000-0001-7531-6489 ; Fran Ramovš Institute of the Slovenian Language, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Abstract

The Slovene dialect ichthyonym jeraj ’gavun, Atherina’ [jəˈraj], before the reduction [jeˈraj], in the Trieste area, was borrowed from the plural form which belonged to a now already substratum of the Friulian sphere, in which the name *jeˈra: l ‘gavun, Atherina’ developed from romance *geral. The confirmations for it exist in the Istrian Venetian geràl ‘Atherina hepsetus’ (Izola), geràl ‘Atherina hepsetus’ (Koper) and geral ‘same’ (Rijeka). South of Rijeka, this noun in -al was not confirmed as a loanword in Croatian or as a Roman ichthyonym. It preserves the Latin gerrēs / girrēs m, g -is ‘small, poorly valued sea fish’, which was also the starting point for a Croatian dialectal loanword gira ‘Atherina boyeri’ (with a diminutive girica ‘same’) of Dalmatian origin.

Keywords

Croatian; ichthyonym; dialect; Romance loanwords; Slovenian

Hrčak ID:

266316

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/266316

Publication date:

7.12.2021.

Article data in other languages: slovenian

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