ANTROPONIMIJA U NAJSTARIJOJ DUVANJSKOJ MATIČNOJ KNJIZI (1750. - 1758.)
ANTROPONYMY IN THE OLDEST PARISH REGISTER IN DUVNO (1750 - 1758)

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyzes antropo-onomastic lexis from the corpus of names from the Parish register of the baptized from the Duvno parish. It was written in Croatian Cyrillics. It is a private register in which a priest, a Glagolitic script user, Father Anton Ljubosović, entered baptisms done by him in Duvno parish and wider. This was later rewritten into the official register. Since that official register was lost in a fire of the parish house in Seonica in 1821, the private register of Father Anton that has been kept up till today is of special value. That is the oldest register of the Duvno parish. At the same time it is the oldest register in the area of Mostar-Duvno diocese. The register encompasses 41 pages with 248 baptism entries. In the Register we have personal names and family names of the children that were baptized in the time span from 1750 til 1758. Names are a mirror of the history and language of a nation and a culture. That is why antroponyms that can be found in old parish registers are of extreme importance for the linguistic, but also for the historical and cultural research. After we have read the antroponyms, we noticed the influence of the orders of the Council of Trent about giving names of the saints because the saints' names are the dominant element of the personal names corpus as well as the family name corpus. The paper is divided into two parts. First we analyze personal names as the oldest layer of antroponymy, according to the manner of formation, form and frequency in the Register. The family name corpus is analyzed in the same way.

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