The Principle Gens Una Sumus in Anthroponymy – Relatives / Relationship as a Motive in the Surnames of Bosnia and Herzegovina Cover Image

Princip gens una sumus u antroponimiji - srodstvo kao motiv u prezimenima Bosne i Hercegovine
The Principle Gens Una Sumus in Anthroponymy – Relatives / Relationship as a Motive in the Surnames of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Author(s): Indira Šabić
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Culture and social structure , Philology
Published by: Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Tuzli
Keywords: anthroponym; gentis; relationship; in-laws; godfather-godmother; blood brotherhood; surname;

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with examples of surnames motivated by kinship terminologies: families and in-laws, kinship through being godfather (godmother), and blood-brotherhood relationships. The author concludes that surnames keeps the origin and variety of the family and in-laws terminology. Then the author discusses the socio-linguistic reason for the expansiveness of the surnames in Bosnia and Herzegovina area. In regard to its morphological structure, surnames could be made without word formation meaning by onimisation as non-suffix surnames, and with word formation or by suffixation.

  • Issue Year: XI/2020
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 45-66
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Bosnian