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A major work of Croatian onomastics, the result of fifteen years of dedicated work. This dictionary includes over 9,000 basic names and tens of thousands of derivatives, surpassing similar world directories.
Šimundić collected data through field research throughout Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia, relying on direct interviews with the bearers of the name. The dictionary omits Muslim names of oriental origin, as a separate dictionary already existed for that group.
The dictionary is structured according to the "cluster" system, where the basic name is listed with the corre...
Nakladni zavod Matice hrvatske, 1988.Hardcover with dust jacket.