Folia onomastica Croatica, No. 11, 2002.
Original scientific paper
Slovene surnam es ending in -goj
Marko Snoj
; Institut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU
Abstract
In the article are collected the Slovene and Croatian surnames ending in -goj
and their Italianized variant -goi, as well as part of the medieval attestations of
anthroponyms in historical registers with this morpheme that helps to shed light
on its primary semantic value. The identification of this morpheme with the
Common Slavic lexeme *gojb, whose meaning can be established using the comparative
method as diving, vocation', is obvious. (...)
Keywords
Slovene surnames; suffix -goj; Slovene anthroponymy
Hrčak ID:
180386
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Publication date:
10.3.2003.
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