From the Onomastics of the Area оf Radjevina. Nicknames From Two Villages of the Radjevina Area: Semantics and Motivation Cover Image

Из ономастике Рађевине. Лични надимци два рађевска села: семантика и мотивација
From the Onomastics of the Area оf Radjevina. Nicknames From Two Villages of the Radjevina Area: Semantics and Motivation

Author(s): Mirjana Petrović Savić
Subject(s): Lexis, South Slavic Languages, Philology
Published by: Филолошки факултет Универзитета у Бањој Луци
Keywords: Radjevina; onomastics; nicknames;

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with 300 nicknames from two villages in the area of Radjevina: Bela Crkva and Mojkovic. Initially, the corpus is divided into male and female nicknames, and further on according to some minor semantic or motivational features. At the end there is a register of nicknames with the metaphorical meaning of the corresponding appellative, if recorded in dictionaries.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 57-74
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Serbian