Linguistica  

Silvo Torkar

Preface

Georg Holzer

This paper examines the history of sounds and accents of a number of place names that have been borrowed by Slavic languages from substrate or neighbouring languages around the time of the Slavic expansion. The selected names originate from Greek, Latin a... see more

Zbigniew Babik

The paper offers a supplement to the author’s treatment of the oldest/prehistoric layer of Polish toponymy as exemplified in his 2001 book. Northern Mazovia, to which the present investigation is restricted, was probably Slavicized at a later date than th... see more

Jaromír Krško

In this paper, we focus on the influence of pre-Slavic ethnic groups on the hydronymy of present-day Slovakia. The migration of entire ethnic groups – especially after the dissolution of the Roman Empire – led to contact between native and incoming people... see more

Luka Repanšek

The etymology of the Slovene hydronym Soca (Standard Friulan Lusìnç, Italian Isonzo) was satisfactorily elucidated more than half a century ago. The overall idea that the river name goes back to a derivative of a Proto-Indo-European verbal root *H1eisH2- ... see more

Metka Furlan

Although the name of the river Dragonja was as Argaone < PIE *H2erg’eH2ion- first mentioned by Anonymus from Ravenna already in the 7th century, the modern hydronymic forms Slovene Draginja, Croatian Dragonja and Italian Dragogna, are only indirectly c... see more

Maurizio Puntin

The author has studied in depth, starting from the 90s, the place names and the ancient anthroponymy of the Monfalcone area (the old Ultraisoncium ‘beyond the Isonzo river’). After the publication of the second edition of his monograph, the research conti... see more

Matej Šekli

The analysis of Old Romance geographical names in early South Slavic confirms that the majority of late Proto-Slavic sound changes were still operative in the period of the earliest Old Romance-Slavic language contacts in the Balkan Peninsula and eastern ... see more

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The article describes Slavic and Eastern Romance language contact in the Dniester river basin. We investigate the etymology of the hydronyms that have Eastern Romance (Romanian and Moldavian) language elements in their structure. We analzse how water bodi... see more

Inge Bily

The rivers Saale and Elbe mark the western border of the former compact Old Sorbian region. In the north Old Sorbian borders on Old Polabian, in the East and Southeast on Polish and Czech. Proper names are an important source both for shedding light on th... see more

Jana Pleskalová

A diachronic analysis of Czech-German relationships in relation to the anthroponymy of the Czech lands has revealed that the most significant effect of the contact can be seen in the domain of personal names. First, a common inventory of Christian names f... see more

Silvo Torkar

The paper analyses eight Slovene toponyms which are the result of a language contact situation – with three of them, however, that only holds for their German counterparts. Slovene speakers to a lesser or greater extent took over German substitutions and ... see more

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The article raises a wide range of issues related to the ancient presence of Balts in Russian hydronymy. The entire eastern half of the vast Old Baltic ethno-historical area overlapped with regions of European Russia. The names of rivers and lakes are the... see more

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The paper presents a comparative study of “demonological” root cert- and hiisi- in the currently used Russian toponymy of the Russian North (Arkhangelsk, Vologda regions, the surrounding areas of Yaroslavl, Kostroma regions), and the Republic of Karelia. ... see more

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The article highlights some of the most important issues related to the study of the rich heritage represented in the Finno-Ugric substrate toponymy of the Russian North – the territory including modern Arkhangelsk and Vologda regions of Russia. The autho... see more

Andela Francic

In the introductory part of the paper the author briefly comments on the history of Croatian surnames, on Croatian-Hungarian language contact and studies of these contacts. A predictable result of centuries-long political union of Croats and Hungarians ar... see more

Aleksandar Loma

The paper deals with the place name Šepšin, designating a village in Serbia situated to the south of Belgrade, near the town of Mladenovac. According to the testimony of the Turkish 16th century tax registers, its modern form developed via Šemšin from the... see more

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The centuries-old contact of Turkic tribes with the native population of Ukraine is broadly reflected in Ukrainian toponymy where Turkisms are one of the largest groups among foreign place names. They embedded into the native speech during three main peri... see more

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The article provides an alternative etymological analysis of five area and settlement names:1. The hydronyms/toponyms with the bases [cyrill.] ??è, ??ù, ??è, ???è, *???è (and derivatives), which were mistakenly associated with the Turkish word ebe ‘midwif... see more

Eva Sicherl

The article aims to shed some light on the growing tendency of Slovene native speakers towards borrowing English personal names when naming new-born children. Some historical overview of the borrowing of English personal names into Slovene is given, start... see more