Predoslje a Prelosno (po 45 letech)

• Authors: Silvo Torkar

Title variants

EN

Predoslje and Prelosno (45 years after)

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

France Bezlaj first published his account of the Slovene toponyms Predoslje and Prelosno in the journal Zpravodaj Místopisné komise ČSAV in 1967. Based on historical records (Prerassell and other similar forms) as well as geographic characteristics of the locations in question, he claimed that the term *predoselj from folk geographic terminology, denoting a natural bridge over a ravine or perhaps even a ravine as such, contains the lexeme *prěrǫslo, identified as an obsolete appellative form *rǫslo sharing its root with the Russian ruslo ‘riverbed, river or stream’. In this paper, however, we propose to explain the names Predoslje and Prelosno as originating from the geographic appellative *prěraslь, derived from the verb prerasti ‘to overgrow’. Parallels to the obsolete appelative *prerasel can be found in Polish (Przerośl), Western-Ukrainian (Перерiсль), and Serbian (Велика, Maлa Прераст) toponymy.

Keywords

CS

onomastika

EN

onomastics; Slovenian; etymology; geographical names; geographic appellatives; Predoslje

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta onomastica
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 53
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 316-322
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Silvo Torkar

• Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v. v. i., Letenská 123/4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic