Ženska imena u Pomeniku manastira Sv. Trojice kod Pljevalja (XVI vek)

Abstract

This paper studies the system of female personal names in the manuscript: Commemorative Book of the monastery of the Holy Trinity (Pljevlja, XVI century). The manuscript is written on paper, it contains 283 sheets of paper (215 x 155 mm), it originates from the last quarter of the XVI century (between 1575 and 1585), and is safeguarded in the monastery’s treasury number 74. The analysis of female proper names is undertaken in order to establish their structural and semantic characteristics, as well as to compare them to the state of anthroponymic sources from the XVI and XVII century. In general, the conducted research reflects the state noted in other commemorative books, but also complements and further develops our previous findings, concerning the repertoire of female names in the Serbian language, from the XVI and XVII century, bringing forth new confirmations of rare names or confirming, for the first time, the existence of thus far unrecorded names: Belovita, Beoka, Vujčica, Vučisava, Vičisava, Vičica, Deha, Jevrenija, Jesenka, Roka, Ugra, Hrnja, Cenija, Cura. On the other hand, the studied anthroponymic texts represent a significant testament of the developmental processes in the medieval Serbian language, most notably the fate of the syllabic /l/, /l/ at the end of a syllable, the old Serbian vowel “jat”, and the consonant /h/.vlja (XVI Century)