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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Albanian Prishtina.
Proper noun
Prishtina
- Alternative spelling of Pristina
Albanian
Etymology
Uncertain. Multiple theories exist:
- Hamp connected the word with an Indo-European derivative *pṛ-tu- (ford) + *stein (cognate to English stone) which in Proto-Albanian, spoken in the region before the reign of Roman Emperor Trajan (1st-2nd century CE) produced Pristina.[1] Thus the name in the pre-Slavic migrations era would mean in the local Albanian variety "ford-stone"[2]
- Ernst Eichler suggests a connection with the Emperor Primus Justinianus who is thought to have built the town of Pristina. He sees the term Pristina as a composition of his name.[3]
- Possibly derived from dialectal Proto-Slavic *pryščina (“spring of water”), from *pryskati (“to splash, to spray”). Alternatively, possibly derived from Proto-Slavic *Prišьčь (“of Prishek”) (compare Kajkavian Serbo-Croatian Prišek, a surname, and Old Polish Parzyszek, a personal name) + derivational suffix *-ina. According to Aleksandar Loma, Snoj's etymology would presuppose a rare and relatively late word formation process.[4] According to Loma, the name of the city could be derived from the Proto-Slavic dialectal word *pryščina, meaning "spring (of water)", which is also attested in the Moravian dialects of Czech; it is derived from the verb *pryskati, meaning "to splash" or "to spray" (prskati in modern Serbian).[4]
Proper noun
Prishtina
- (definite) Pristina, Prishtina (the capital city of Kosovo; district of Kosovo; municipality of Kosovo)
See also
References
- ^ Mehmeti, Col ((Can we date this quote?)) “This Time In Linguistics History: Eric Hamp and Albanian Linguistics”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Linguistic Society of America
- ^ Curtis, Matthew (2012) Slavic-Albanian Language Contact, Convergence, and Coexistence, Ohio State University, →ISBN, page 42
- ^ Namenforschung : ein internationales Handbuch zur Onomastik. 1. Teilband, Berlin: De Gruyter; Ernst Eichler, 1995, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 718
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Loma, Aleksandar (2013) “Топонимија Бањске хрисовуље [Toponymy of the Banjska Chrysobull]”, in Onomatološki Prilozi, Belgrade: Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, →ISSN, page 181