-drag (Cyrillic: -драг) and -drog is a common Slavic given name word root, drag meaning "dear, beloved", in single-lexemed and dithematic (two lexemes) names.
Examples
editSingle-lexeme names
edit- Serbo-Croatian Dragan (m.); Dragana (f.) (with past participle suffix -an)
- Serbo-Croatian Dragić (m.) (with diminutive suffix -ić)
- 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
edit- 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
editReferences
edit- Mate Šimundić (1988). Rječnik osobnih imena. Nakladni zavod Matice hrvatske.
- Milica Grković (1977). Rečnik ličnih imena kod Srba. Vuk Karadžić.
- Radojica Jovičević (1985). Lična imena u staroslovenskom ǰeziku. Filološki fakultet Beogradskog Univerziteta.
- Katarina Stojanović (2007). Srpska imena: narodna i hrišćanska. Gramatik. ISBN 978-86-84421-51-9.