NAZIVI ZA DAŽDEVNJAKA U BOSNI I HERCEGOVINI: LINGVOGEOGRAFSKI PRISTUP
WORDS FOR THE FIRE SALAMANDER IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: LINGUOGEOGRAPHICAL APPROACH

Author(s): Senahid Halilović
Subject(s): Applied Geography, Applied Linguistics, Lexis, Sociolinguistics
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: areal features; Bosnia and Herzegovina; the fire salamander; dialect lexis; dialectology; linguogeography; survey;
Summary/Abstract: During the 20th century, dialectologists dedicated numerous studies to the words used to refer to the fire salamander (Salamandra maculosa Laur.) in the central South Slavonic language. In the paper from 1962, Dalibor Brozović presents 120 names for the fire salamander out of which 40 are known only in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In this paper, we extend the research and point to the existence of even more names for the fire salamander in the languages spoken in Bosnia and Herzegovina: in the glossary, we list 96 words for the fire salamander, not taking into account the phonetic and the accent-based variants. Aside from the new names and forms taken from different sources, we also present new data about the aerial features of the already familiar terms. The variety of the words used to name the fire salamander, caused by both interlinguistic and external factors, is also manifested in the very roots of the words and their inflections. The analysis shows that the words are based on formation principles adding different suffixes to the same roots (kišavac, kišńak, kišo) or those adding the same suffixes to different roots (burńak, kišńak, vodńak). By means of a linguogeographic analysis of a part of the corpora collected, we have established the areal features for the roots and the names that have become quite widespread across Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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