Muška imena u Pomeniku manastira Sv. Trojice (Pljevlja, XVI vek)

Abstract

The paper studies the system of male personal names in the Commemorative Book of the monastery of the Holy Trinity in Plevlja (16th century). The manuscript is written on paper, it contains 283 sheets of paper (215 x 155mm), it originates from the last quarter of the 16th century (between 1575 and 1585), and is safeguarded in the monostery`s treasury number 74. The analysis of male proper names is undertaken in order to establish their structural and semantic characteristics, as well as to compare them to the state of other anthroponymic sources from the 15th and 16th century. As the most significant features of the male names system in the Commemorative Book, the paper underlines the following: a) a conspicuous prevalence of male names Slovene in origin over Christian names, b) a high frequency of male names with morphological bases rad- and vuk-, and c) a considerable productivity of a hypocoristic suffix -о, along with the expected productivity of the suffixes -kо and -a. Judging by the aforementioned features, especially the ones under а) and b), but also other less significant ones, the male names system in the Commemorative Book of the Holy Trinity Monastery in Pljevlja from the 16th century extensively corresponds to the anthroponymic systems depicted in other preserved commemorative books from the 16th century located on the current territory of Montenegro – the Commemorative Book of the Piva Monastery, the Commemorative Book of the Morača Monastery and the Commemorative Book of the Hoča, ad well as the collected corpus from the wider territory of the monastery according to the Turkish defters (tax registers) from the 15th and 16th centuries.