Lična imena u pomeniku manastira Krke

Abstract

The paper investigates the most important features of the system of personal names recorded from 1756 to 1826 in the manuscript of the Commemorative Book of the Krka Monastery, which is preserved in the monastery treasury under the signature Krka 57. Since at the beginning of each sheet of a commemorative book, and less often on the margins, the names of settlements from which personal names were entered are listed, the recorded material constitutes a representative sample for the research of Serbian anthroponymy in northern Dalmatia and the neighboring areas of Lika and western Bosnia during the aforementioned period. Along with the analysis of personal names according to their origin and structure, the aim of the paper was to provide a more detailed account of methodological problems in the research of old Serbian commemorative books, as well as to verify the hypothesis of Ž. Bjelanović that the core of contemporary Serbian anthroponymy in northern Dalmatia had been formed from the end of the 17th century onwards. The aforementioned hypothesis was confirmed based on a series of common features in the system of personal names from the Commemorative Book of the Krka Monastery and the Bukovica area in northern Dalmatia in the last quarter of the 20th century: the matching system of surnames and family nicknames, continuity of the most frequent male and female names, continuity of Latin influences in anthroponymy, productivity of the suffix -iša, as well as the presence of male Christian names, such as Gligorijа, Grigorijа, Dimitrijа. Compared to other commemorative books investigated so far, the specificity of the Krka monastery Commemorative Book is particularly reflected in the confirmation of rare or hitherto unrecorded names: Bjegoje, Bradiša, Vukolaj, Vusin, Dragojica, Jahša, Radasav, Savat, Franeš; Domka, Hojdana, Zrina, Zrnka, Jageta, Jezdarica, Malika, Maraja, Mrena, Pšena.