-drag
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-drag (Cyrillic: -дÑаг) and -drog is a common Slavic given name lexeme, drag meaning "dear, beloved", in single-lexemed and dithematic names. For any of these given names, "Draža" may be a diminutive. Other names with the stem Draž- include Draž, Dražan, Dražen.
Single-lexeme names
- Serbo-Croatian Dragan (m.); Dragana (f.) (with past participle suffix -an)
- Serbo-Croatian DragiÄ (m.) (with diminutive suffix -iÄ)
- Serbo-Croatian Dragica (f.) (with suffix -ica)
- Serbo-Croatian Dragoje (m.) (with suffix -oje)
- Serbo-Croatian Dragaš (m.) (with suffix -aš)
- Serbo-Croatian Dragoš (m.) (with suffix -oš)
- Serbo-Croatian Dragiša (m.) (with suffix -iša)
- Serbo-Croatian Dragutin (m.) (with suffix -utin)
Dithematic names
Only masculine names are listed. -a is simply added to produce feminine forms.
- Prefixed
- Serbo-Croatian Dragimir, Dragomir (from mir, "peace, world")
- Serbo-Croatian Dragislav, Dragoslav (m.); Dragoslava (f.) (from slava, "glory, fame")
- Serbo-Croatian Dragivoj, Dragivoje (from voj, "war")
- Serbo-Croatian Dragoljub (from ljub, "love, to like")
- Serbo-Croatian Dragorad (from rad, "happy, eager, to care")
- Serbo-Croatian Dragosav (from sav, "all, every")
- Suffixed
- Serbo-Croatian Ljubodrag (from ljub, "love, to like")
- Serbo-Croatian Milidrag, Milodrag (from milo, "love, to like")
- Serbo-Croatian Miodrag (from mio, "tender, cute")
- Serbo-Croatian Predrag (from pre, "very, much")
- Serbo-Croatian Svedrag (from sve, "all")
- Serbo-Croatian Vojdrag, Vojidrag (from voj, "war")
- Serbo-Croatian Vukdrag, Vukodrag (from vuk, "wolf")
- Serbo-Croatian Živodrag (from živo, "living")
See also
References
- Mate Å imundiÄ (1988). RjeÄnik osobnih imena. Nakladni zavod Matice hrvatske.
- Milica GrkoviÄ (1977). ReÄnik liÄnih imena kod Srba. Vuk KaradžiÄ.
- Radojica JoviÄeviÄ (1985). LiÄna imena u staroslovenskom ǰeziku. FiloloÅ¡ki fakultet Beogradskog Univerziteta.
- Katarina StojanoviÄ (2007). Srpska imena: narodna i hriÅ¡Äanska. Gramatik. ISBN 978-86-84421-51-9.