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Original scientific paper

METAPHORICALITY IN THE TOPONYMY IN THE NAMES OF THE ZADAR-ŠIBENIK ISLANDS

Petar Šimunović ; Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, Zagreb, Croatia


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Abstract

The work analyses the character of metaphors in the names of the Zadar-Šibenik islands. Metaphors are most often influenced by the shape of the island: flatness, concavity, length, i.e. shapes of the human body, birds, sea fauna etc. These metaphors mostly originate from the Croatian language and the Dalmatian substrate, i.e. the Venetian substrate. It is interesting that some islands have a variety of inconsistent names. Many names are distorted, so by re-etymising „wrong“ metaphors names are formed, such as Kurba Vela.

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Hrčak ID:

62044

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/62044

Publication date:

22.3.2004.

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