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The paper presents the onomastics recorded in Levač village Velika Kruševica which is situated in the Levač municipality. We have registered toponyms, personal and family nicknames, personal names and surnames of all the residents who have been in the village during our visit (some have been working in the fields). A short analysis of lexical and semantic units has been done as well as the classification of the registered onyms. Integral part of the paper is also a dictionary with an alphabetical list of the recorded onyms.

This paper deals with the word formation modes used in construction of male and female personal names recorded in villages located in the river Kosanica basin which is the largest tributary of the river Toplica. Materials for this paper were collected in the period between 1996 and 2006. Recorded onomastic materials belongs to 40 Kosanica villages, from Kuršumlijska Banja, Samokov and Krčmar to southern Kosanica villages Dobri Do, Trn, Trpeze, Sekirača, Vasiljevac and Merdare. More than 2355 male and female personal names have been collected. Our paper has been concerned with morphology and word formation processes which are used in structuring of the male and female personal names in the examined area.

This paper deals with the toponymy of the Oslare village. Oslare is located just five kilometers south of Bujanovac. The settlement has been founded on the left bank of the Moravica River, that is, on the western side of the Belgrade - Skoplje highway and on the very border of Vranjsko Pomoravlje and Presevo Moravica. The village residents are of Serbian and Albanian origins. Some of the Serbs are locals and some migrated to Oslare from Kosovsko Pomoravlje as well as from the nearby villages. Albanians migrated to Oslare from Albania and other areas. Among Albanian residents are also Serbs who took Islam. Most of them took the name Taci but there are other families as well. The main concern of this paper is the recording of the Oslare toponymy. This is achieved through conversation with both Serbian and Albanian residents in both Serbian and Albanian languages. We have also analyzed semantics of the collected toponymes and their function in the everyday use. We tried to compare toponymes used by Serbs, who speak Serbian language (southmoravian dialect) and Albanians, both of those who are of Serbian origins and of those who migrated from Albania.

This paper deals with the microtoponymy of the Berkovo village, which is situated on the left bank of Beli drim, in the area called Prekoruplje. Its accurate location is between Ozdrim and Pećka Bistrica confluence with the Drim. Research materials have been recorded by interviewing locals in the year of 1997 (Orthodox Serbs and Catholic Albanians). Some of the entries that are used in this paper, concerning village Berkovo, are taken from the work of Mileta Bukumirić called Onomastic of Prekoruplje (second part). The paper was published in Belgrade in the Onomatology contributions in 1982.

This paper deals with the lexicology of potters in Podujevo. Materials have been recorded from the interview with a Serbian resident from Podujevo. Revisions and supplementations of the recorded materials have been conducted in 2003rd, in Trstenik, where Nedeljko, a potter, lived with his family. After living Podujevo he retired and quitted making pottery. A list of pottery names have also been done, as well as the Dictionary of the examined lexemes. Each entry was defined, grammatical and accentually. Semantic and lexical analyses of pottery terms have also been done.

This paper deals with pigeon fancier's lexicology and terminology used in Ugljare village which is situated on the right bank of Prištevka River, in the area between Kosovo Polje and Priština. Terminology and lexics of pigeon fanciers were recorded after the Kosovo and Metohija occupation in 1999. Research materials were mainly collected from local pigeon fanciers. Certain amount of the answers was collected with the use of questionnaires specifically made for this research. We have also conducted lexical, semantical and pronunciation analyses of the recorded materials. A dictionary of registered names has also been made. Materials were classified within nine semantical groups. Dictionary contains one hundred and thirty units.

Petar D. Petrović, a teacher, was born in a prominent mercantile family in Peć in 1881. He had graduated from theology school in Prizren and worked as a teacher in Gnjilane, Priština, Prizren and Peć. He used to send short stories and notes concerning life and work of Serbs in the area of today’s Kosovo and Metohija to a various newspapers and magazines which were printed from Constantinople to Belgrade and Novi Sad. In the magazine Zastava, Svetozar Miletić’s journal of the National Radical Party in Novi Sad, he has published 24 short stories between 1906 and 1912 and one short story in the illustrated magazine ,,Graničar". The subject of our research here are speech properties of Prizren - South Moravian and Kosovo - Resavian dialects which are registered in characters’ speech described in Petrovic’s prose originating from different regions: Kosovo Pomoravian, Priština, from Prizren and its surroundings and from northern Metohija. We have also analyzed dialecticism recorded in the speech of the writer.

This paper deals with dialectical lexics found in a poem collection named Straori written by a well-known author from Kosovo and Metohija, Ratko Popović. The book is consisted of 52 songs, mostly written in prizrensko - southmoravian dialect. Lexical materials were analyzed, classified and compared with data published in the Dictionary of Kosovo and Metohija dialects by Glisa Elezović and also in Dictionary of Ugljare near Priština by Golub Jašović. During the material extraction our main concerns were to use dialecticisms, regionalisms and localisms that are used in the same form in Serbian dialects of Gračanica natives, and also that these elements do not occur in Dictionary of Serbo-Croatian literary language published by Matica srpska. Semantics and form of chosen elements differ from those found in Popović's book and Gračanica's dialects. Lexical, semantical, and formational analysis were used in the research of house and household names, and also in cattle, crop and fruit lexics and terminology. Also, of lexics used in the naming of birds and animals, food and drinks, clothes and also for the names of board games, of faith and believes, administrative names etc. Microtoponyms and oikonyms found in Straori were classified as a special dialectical subgroup. Foreign dialectisms, mostly of Greek and Eastern origins, were also analyzed.

This paper deals with phonological and morphological characteristics of the village Tamnič in Negotinska Krajina. The village is located about thirty kilometers south of Negotin. Most of the inhabitants refer to themselves as Kosovljani. They are emigrants from the Kosovo and Metohija territory. Dialect used in this settlement is kosovsko - resavski. However, we have registered numerous occurrences on phonological and morphological level that have been taken from prizrensko - timočki and the neighboring Vlach and Bulgarian dialects. .

This paper is a contribution to a study of onomastic in two Batocina's suburbs Loznica and Donja mala. Batocina was built on the banks of Lepenica's lower course, 3km upstream from its confluence with Great Morava. We have registered Micro-toponyms of Loznica, the community which is situated on the right and a community of Donja mala on the left side of the Lepenica River. Both communities are 2 km away from Batocina's downtown. We have also registered toponyms that are situated outside of the previously mentioned communities. There are arable lands and forests which are owned by the families Stojanovic, Markovic and Petrovic whose parentage originates from Bulgarians and Marcic gentes. Dictionary of anthroponomy has been made in which we classified: surnames, family nicknames, personal names of males and females, personal nicknames and also hypocoristics of males and females that belong to the inhabitants of these communities who have their origins in Bulgarian and Maricic families. These families emigrated to Sumadia from Eastern parts of Serbia after the Milos's revolt.

The paper makes the analysis of micro-toponyms registered in the area of the Village of Ugljari, Serbian settlement on the riversides of the Prištevka, located within the Municipality of Kosovo Polje. Based on semantics and structure, recorded micro names of the subject settlement are classified in two groups. The first group includes micro-toponyms of appellative origin, while the other group includes micro-toponyms of anthroponymic origin. Recorded names are further classified to: micro names which have developed from other toponyms, micro-toponyms of phytonomic and zoonimic origin, while the names of foreign origin and hydro-names designating running and still water in the rural area of the place (wells, swamps, rivers, creeks) are sorted out in a special group. Dictionary of micro-toponyms with around a hundred and fifty micro names is the integral part of the Paper.