Original scientific paper

Puncta Ostrice – a toponymic form that has confused and divided modern reseachers

Kristijan Juran orcid.org/0000-0003-3765-0261

Abstract

In late Medieval and early modern historical sources, the toponymic form Puncta Ostrice is mentioned a few times as the name of a tract of land near the modern-day settlement of Tisno. Since the toponym has not been preserved in the modern toponymy, we will then try to place it on the basis of its geographical, historical and toponomastic context. We will also examine the appearance of the same and similar toponymic forms in recent eastern Adriatic toponymy. The adjective oštar ‘sharp’ appears frequently in Croatian toponymy, particularly in oronymy. It is most often part of a two-part syntagm (Oštri Vrh, Oštra Kosa, Oštra Glava), while it is more rarely seen in proprialized form (Oštrovica, Oštrik, Oštrikovac). In eastern Adriatic toponymy we also find it in the names of points (Oštri Rat on Korčula, Oštra Ponta on Mljet, Oštra Glava near Rogoznica, Oštri Rt on Prukljan — we have taken these toponyms from topographic maps), but it is present in the proprialized form Oštrica, according to current toponomastic data, only along the Šibenik coastal area and archipelago. In the Zadar archipelago, the most indented eastern Adriatic archipelago, there is not a single Oštrica. There is not even a single adjective ‘oštar’ in the toponymy of its points (there exist the toponyms Punta Pocukmarka Oštro and Punta Oštra, but ‘oštar’ in their case is a direction, from the lat. auster, south). The toponym Oštrica exists neither on Čiovo, Drvenik, Šolta, nor Brač, nor does it in the coastal regions to the north and south of Šibenik.

Keywords

toponymy; promontorium; Punta Oštrice; Murter

Hrčak ID:

79847

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/79847

Publication date:

29.12.2011.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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