Author(s): Dragomir Vujicic / Language(s): Croatian,Serbian
/ Issue: 4/1979
In hydronymic material from the area of the left bank tributaries of the Drina, a large number of names are of patronymic origin. Those names appear in the form of a two-member syntagm with a possessive genitive singular or plural, as their first part, and the hydronymic term as a second part of the syntagm such as Alibašića potok (Alibašić Brook), Barakovića rijeka (Baraković river), Gruhonjića ada (Gruhonjić Island), etc. It is interesting to note that some of these possessive genitives in plural have preserved both genetive lengths in this category, although in most case in this category of names, both semantic and form al borders between the singular and plural genitive form s have been eradicated. Besides the above listed patronymic bases, the direct inclusion of antroponyms into the structure of hydronyms in this area is frequent. They most of the time function as possessive adjectives ending in -ov/ev and -in with apelative or hydronymic term , and less frequently in -ski. Suffix -ski is directly added to the proper name, or to the adjectival form of it. The names of the type such as Nikolić, Vidošić, etc. are very rare, and it is believed that they must have had the usual syntagmatic forms: Nikolića potok (Nikolić Brook), than Nikolić-potok and finally just Nikolić. Names in the unchanged antroponymic form are also sporadic: Džafer, Radovan, etc. Naturally, in the materials from this area, models of antroponymic with the so-called toponomastic suffixes, are also present.
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