Necky a necičky v pomístních jménech v Čechách

• Authors: Martina Zirhutová

Title variants

EN

The common nouns necky and necičky in minor place names in Bohemia

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The paper deals with minor place names in Bohemia which include the common noun necky (a Czech word of Slavic origin meaning “a wooden washtub, used for hand washing clothes”) or its diminutive form necičky. The focus is on etymological and motivational analysis of the names as well as their geographical occurrence. The geographical term of a metaphorical origin necky meaning “valley/basin resembling a washtub” occurs in nearly 150 minor place names, found mainly in hilly and plain regions of the Central, Eastern and northeastern Bohemia. The names denote fields, meadows, pastures etc. found in a terrain resembling a washtub, i. e. with sides higher than the bottom, most of them being of a very old origin.

Keywords

CS

onomastika; pomístní jména v Čechách; apelativum necky; jména metaforického původu

EN

onomastics; minor place names in Bohemia; the common noun necky; metaphorical names

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Czech Ethnological Society
• Journal: Národopisný věstník
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 63
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 243-257
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Martina Zirhutová

• Acta onomastica, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic