%0 Journal Article
%T The Etymology of the Name of the Island I£¿
%A Matasovi£¿
%A Maja
%A Matasovi£¿
%A Ranko
%J -
%D 2019
%R 10.21857/yl4okf3849
%X Sa£¿etak In this paper we review the early mentions of the name of the island I£¿ near Zadar in Croatia. We also suggest that the Dalmato-Romance name of the island was [E£¿dzu], from which the Croatian form I£¿ can be regularly derived. Furthermore, we suggest that the Dalmato-Romance form was borrowed from the Greek A¨ªgeion (n¨¥s¨ªon) or Aige¨ª¨¥ (ne£¿sos), a ¡®goat-island¡¯. The development of the Greek g to the Dalmato-Romance *dz and the Croatian £¿ can be traced to Gr. aigial¨®s ¡®beach¡¯ > Croat. £¿£¿l ¡®beach¡¯. The semantic motivation for deriving the name of the island from the noun meaning ¡®goat¡¯ has parallels in other toponyms on the Adriatic, including the name of the island Kozjak (from Croatian koza ¡®goat¡¯). In the Middle Ages, as well as in more recent periods, the inhabitants of the coast used to keep goats on the island of I£¿, and this custom may have reflected in the name of the island
%K etymology
%K toponymy
%K I£¿
%K Greek loanwords
%K Dalmato-Romance
%U https://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=333783