Professional paper
Doprinijeti or pridonijeti – a step towards the truth
Jurica Budja
Abstract
One verb – meaning ‘to contribute’ – occurs in modern Croatian in two forms: doprinijeti and pridonijeti. The author uses electronic corpora and dictionaries in order to resolve the question which of the two is to be preferred. A conslusion is reached that doprinijeti is the original form, built on the meaning of underived prinijeti, ‘to offer’.
Keywords
doprinijeti; pridonijeti; prinijeti; word formation; semantics
Hrčak ID:
9291
URI
Publication date:
26.2.2007.
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