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LEXICAL RELICS FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN SUBSTRATUM
Šime Županović
; Split
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The researches into the denominations of fish and other sea fauna in the Yugoslav Adriatic imply some constant features characteristic also for the inhthiological nomenclature of other Mediterranean peoples. The ichthiological terminology in which the lexical relics of the onetime languages were preserved, stratifying one upon the other (Mediterranean, Greek, Latin, Romanesque, Slavic and Venetian layers), is a very common case. As a result of this stratification on a wider area (the Mediterranean, and also European), by studying these phenomena, the conclusion was reached that the linguistic origin of the names for some of our fishes and other sea fauna suggest the contacts and intertwining of the ancient and modern languages of the whole Mediterranean area. Only a clear view of their contents, varietis, and modified mutual relationships, make it possible to understand the systematic and spatial arrangement of their terms and explain reasonably their development and origin. Only in such a comprehensive context of the whole geographic continuity of the Yugoslav coast, located in the geographic and historic continuity of the Mediterranean, the formation and origin of the names of each fish species and other sea fauna can be explained (as attempted in this work) by investigating into the individual lexical remains. Such few names of fishes from the prehistoric period were efficiently preserved along the Yugoslav coast. They belong to the Mediterranean substratum and our ancestors could have inherited them only through the Greek and Roman mediation. In this work the author tried to elaborate on some indisputable Pre-Hellenic elements in the names of fishes on the Yugoslav coast. These kinds of fishes are still caught in our sea: tuna, salema, sargo grouper, lizardfish and forkbeard. By studying their etymologic structure their striking agreement with other Mediterranean etymologies is being revealed. The cause or the immediate stimulus for this agreement, the so called denominative impulse, is sought in the referent itself, i. e., »in the referred thing« – fish, crab, mollusks, etc.
The presence of individual cognate lexical elements of the Mediterranean substratum al different localities would point to a common source that is spreading them in the Mediterranean by seaways. The similarity of or identical names show, in this respect, that in all the Indo-European languages in the Mediterranean basin the individual lexical remains have been preserved from the Pre-Indo-European (Mediterranean) substratum.
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Hrčak ID:
126168
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Datum izdavanja:
3.7.1990.
Posjeta: 1.838 *