Italianisms in the "Kvaderna kapitula lovranskoga"

Abstract

The paper examines the presence of italianisms in documents contained in "Kvaderna kapitula lovranskoga", edited by Damir Viškanić. "Kvaderna" containes entries in Croatian, Italian and Latin, but only Croatian entries will be analysed. The aim is to extract italianisms and to conduct etymological and lexicological analysis. In doing so, the immediate etymology of loanwords (the last donor language) will be determined, and subequently the remote etymology will be attempted. The term of italianism refers to loanwords from Venetian, Triestine, Friulian or Italian.

Keywords

• kvaderna kapitula lovranskoga
• italianism
• immediate etymology
• remote etymology
• venetian
• triestine
• friulian