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From the 'Dictionary of First Names in Current Use in Poland' (Rymut 1995) I isolated a group of names that can be connected with the common names of plants. According to ethnographers plants have an apotropaic power (warding off evil, protective) applied against demons. In connection with this, names of plants could appear in the function of protective names. I divided the names I noted down from...
In the introduction, examples from the Croatian language are used to exemplify the anthroponymization of appellatives (e.g. appellative kovač → family name Kovač), appelativization of anthroponyms (e.g. family name Penkala → appellative penkala) and transonymization (e.g. hydronym Una → first name Una). All of the listed transitions represent evidence that there are no firm boundaries between the...
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