Folia onomastica Croatica, No. 29, 2020.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/y7v64t0kjy
Etymology of Some Toponyms of the Municipality of Kanfanar
Ante Matan:
orcid.org/0000-0002-9246-4798
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli
Abstract
The territory of today’s Municipality of Kanfanar, County of Istria (Croatia)
contains many interesting toponyms. It is the successor of the better known medieval
town of Duo Castra, the territory of which has been inhabited since prehistoric
times. A few authors have approached this before, but not from a place-naming
or linguistic point of view. Others researched only a few byways. This paper
analyses six selected toponyms from the existing corpus, in alphabetical order:
Barat, Dvigrad, Jural, Kanfanar, Lim bay, and Maklavun. It considers the historical
sources and cartographical data. The toponyms examined are among the
oldest toponyms of the territory or are peculiar in some way. The research on
their etymologies has exhibited matters of interest: we find evidence of pre-roman
inhabitants, the Histri, for the first time not only in the sphere of archaeology.
Names of places, such as Lim (bay), Maklavun, (and Karaštak), attest to the
old inhabitants. Only Duo Castra presents a Latin origin, while Barat and Jural,
hitherto considered to have been derived from a Romance origin, show a Slavic
origin. The etymology of Kanfanar has been shown to be obscure and not derivable
from Latin, Romance or Slavic. The author points out two predominant influences
in place naming: the oldest being Histrian, of the first known inhabitants of
the region, the other Slavic.
Keywords
toponymy; etymology; Barat; Dvigrad; Jural; Kanfanar; Lim bay; Maklavun
Hrčak ID:
248333
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Publication date:
21.12.2020.
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