OGLED O TOPONIMIJI SELA SILjEVICE U LEVČU

Abstract

The present paper deals with the microtoponymy of a village belonging to the region of Levač in Central Serbia. The corpus consists of 102 microtoponyms, most of them collected through fieldwork from native dialect speakers and the other from written sources that do not reach back beyond the 19th century. It is chosen as representative of Levač and subjected to an analysis, both semantic and structural, in order to establish a basis for further toponymic research that would encompass the whole of the region. As a model for the author served the monograph by Jovanka Radić about the toponymy of the neighbouring region of Belica. It may be generally concluded that the semantic structure of the local microtoponymy is largely conditioned by geographic realities. As for its structure, the monolexeme and bilexeme microtoponyms prevail in the system, whereas the trilexeme type occurs singularly. In the short time period covered by the sources some changes took place, e.g. Muruzišta ‘maize fields’ 1885, Mrzišta today, some names remaining obscure (Đevelak, 1972 Đeverak).