Eponyms With a Slavic Anthroponymic Component in the Bosnian Language

Amela Ljevo-Ovčina, Mehmed Kardaš

Abstract


The lexicon of the Bosnian language, alongside its various lexical layers, also includes eponyms – specific lexical units derived from proper names. These lexemes have been adopted from different languages and at different stages in the development of Bosnian, mostly within broader processes of internationalization, and they represent an open list that expands according to communicative needs. This paper focuses on one particular type of eponym: those whose constituent element is a Slavic proper name – an anthroponym; in other words, eponyms borrowed from other Slavic languages. The research corpus consists of various sources: a number of Slavic eponyms are recorded in dictionaries of contemporary Bosnian, while some belong to specialized lexical systems. This means that they occur in professional or scientific registers and are not included in general-purpose dictionaries, but they areverified in various scientific and professional publications and manuals. Based on the analysed corpus, the paper establishes a classification of eponyms according to word-formation and semantic criteria, as well as according to the fields of science to which they belong.

Keywords


eponyms; anthroponym; lexicon; Slavic borrowings

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51558/2490-3647.2026.11.1.21

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