Raporturi antroponimice sârbo-române. Cu privire specială asupra numelor feminine
Serbian-Romanian anthroponymic relations. With special reference to feminine names

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the present article is to find and establish anthroponymical borrowings from Serbian into Romanian and from Romanian into Serbian with special regard to feminine names. The first task turned out to be a difficult one out of two main reasons: on one hand we have the principle of internal etymology which tells us that feminine names constitute a system of names created mainly from their masculine correspondents and on the other hand the formal identity between the Serbian and Bulgarian inventories of names creates a new difficulty in establishing anthroponymical borrowings from Serbian with certainty. The Romanian influence on the Serbian anthroponymy is much smaller and mostly limited to the system of masculine names and a few structural elements. After submitting to analysis a series of names from both languages we concluded the following: a) we can find significant Serbian antroponymical influences on our inventory of names in the contact area between the two populations, namely the south-west area: Iagoda, Bosilca, Ruja, Nerangia, Iovanca; b) taking into consideration the function and the spreading of the anthroponymical suffix -iţa, it is more likely to relate Romanian anthroponyms such as Draghiţa, Mariţa, Miliţa to their Serbian correspondents, than to the Bulgarian ones; c) the suffix -ul, maintained in the form of some feminine names created through motion indicates the Romanian influence exercised during the Middle Ages: Dančula, Radula; d) the anthroponymical forms from the Serbian inventory that have Romanian phonetism constitute borrowings from Romanian: Joana, Viorica.

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