ЗАКОНОМЈЕРНОСТ АКЦЕНТА У ЕТИМОЛОГИЈИ СХ. НЕПУТ
THE REGULARITY OF ACCENT IN THE ETYMOLOGY OF SERBO-CROATIAN NEPUT

Summary/Abstract: Serbo-Croatian neput, nepuč/nepuć, nebud ‘grandson; nephew’ is a Dalmatian Romance loanword derived from Latin NEPŌTEM ‘grandson; nephew’. The form neput is accented as nȅpūt or nȅput, the form nepuč/nepuć as nȅpūč or nȅpuć, the form nebud as nȅbud. The paper discusses whether the accentuation of these forms is regular given the fact that other forms of the same kind (trisyllabic paroxytona with an open penult) have word-fi nal rather than word-initial accent; cf. L CANĀLEM > SCr. kònāl, -ála ‘gutter’ or L DRACŌNEM > SCr. dròkūn, -úna ‘dragon’. Younger loanwords of Dalmatian Romance origin (posterior to Dybo’s Law) have the same accentuation as seen in the continuants of L NEPŌTEM; cf. L CORĪNUM > SCr. Kȁrīn, -a (hamlet near Zadar), L FLANŌNAM > Čak. Plȍmin, -a (town in Istria), L LACTŪCAM ‘lettuce’ > Čak. lȍtika, -e, L QUIRĪNUM > Čak. (Sveti) Kȁrin (graveyard in Pag). The accentuation of these forms is explained as arising from the operation of the so-called Ivšić’s First Law (*Karȋn > Kȁrīn, *Plomȋn > *Plȍmīn, *lotȋka > *lȍtīka, *Karȋn > *Kȁrīn) and, in some, predominantly Čakavian forms, from the subsequent operation of the posttonic shortening (*Plȍmīn > Plȍmin, *lȍtīka > lȍtika, *Kȁrīn > Kȁrin). The accentuation of the Serbo-Croatian continuants of L NEPŌTEM can be explained in much the same way: *nepȗt/*nepȗč/*nebȗd > nȅpūt/nȅpūč/*nȅbūd (Ivšić’s Law) > nȅput/nȅpuć/nȅbud (posttonic shortening).

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