Z onymie Príkrej

• Authors: Michal Blicha

Title variants

EN

From the onymy of Príkra

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

Príkra, the smallest village in Slovakia, is celebrating its 450th anniversary this year. This paper concentrates on what the onymy says about the life in the village. The motivation of its very name says that it is related to the rugged mountainous surface of the village territory (príkry – a steep, precipitous, abrupt slope, hill, a steep hillside, a mountain – that is a settlement under the steep mountain). Since its origin, the inhabitants of the village have lived by shepherding, agriculture and forestry, as territorial names known up to present times prove. The core of the paper lies in the analysis of nicknames and surnames. During a 450 years’ period, we notice 106 surnames – 55.54% from apellatives and 42.46% from proper names. The conclusion says that the village has been being depopulated, since only 5 inhabitants live there at present.

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta onomastica
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 89-98
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Michal Blicha

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