Slovene surnam es ending in -goj

Abstract

In the article are collected the Slovene and Croatian surnames ending in -goj and their Italianized variant -goi, as well as part of the medieval attestations of anthroponyms in historical registers with this morpheme that helps to shed light on its primary semantic value. The identification of this morpheme with the Common Slavic lexeme *gojb, whose meaning can be established using the comparative method as diving, vocation', is obvious. (...)

Keywords

• Slovene surnames
• suffix -goj
• Slovene anthroponymy