Folia onomastica Croatica, No. 19, 2010.
Preliminary communication
Contribution to the dialectal landscape of Lika in early toponyms
Mijo Lončarić
Abstract
Before the large-scale migrations caused by Otoman advances, Lika was completely Čakavian. To the south and west the Čakavian area continues, to the west it also bordered on Čakavian-Slovene dialects, to the north on transitional Čakavian-Kajkavian dialects, and in the east on ČakavianŠtokavian (Šćakvian), evidence for which is provided by Ikavian „Kajkavians“, the Kajkavian Donjosutlanski dialect. Čakavian can certainly be reconstructed for Lika on the basis of the present-day distribution of Croatian dialects and on the basis of historical data about migrations. We attempt to determine the basic features of Lika Čakavian on the basis of early attestations of toponyms and other linguistic data. The text of an attestation can also reflect the origin or education of a scribe, not just the linguistic situation in the area the form describes. There are few linguistic, dialectal features in early Lika toponyms from the period before the migrations that can be regarded as typically Čakavian – the majority of features is identical to those in Šćakavian dialects. Hypotheses will be forwarded about toponyms in -ec in the southern part of Lika, in the old counties Otučka župa / Otuča, Odorjanska župa / Odorja, and Gatanska župa / Gacka.
Keywords
dialectology; toponymy; Čakavian dialect; Lika; county
Hrčak ID:
79849
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Publication date:
29.12.2011.
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