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Skok
Skok (Cyrillic: Скок) is a Slovenian, Croatian, Belarusian, Ukrainian and Russian surname derived from the Slavic word skok for "leap, jump" or more precisely the Slovene word skočiti for "to jump, to leap" that has its highest density in Slovenia, where it was used in the 15th and 16th century as a nickname for a Christian refugee from the Turks who had fled the territories conquered by the Ottoman Empire to the southeast. Notable people with the name ''Skok'' include: * Craig Skok (born 1947), American former baseball player * Janez Skok (born 1963), Slovenian slalom canoeist * Joža Skok (1931–2017), Croatian literary historian * Matevž Skok (born 1986), Slovenian handball player * Petar Skok (1881–1956), Croatian linguist * Viacheslav Skok (born 1946), Russian water polo player References See also * {{surname, Skok Slovene-language surnames Croatian surnames Belarusian-language surnames Ukrainian-language surnames Russian-language surnames Surnames fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petar Skok
Petar Skok (; 1 March 1881 – 3 February 1956) was a Croatian linguist and onomastics expert. History Skok was born to a Croatian family in the village of Jurkovo Selo, Žumberak. From 1892 to 1900 he attended the Higher Real Gymnasium in Rakovac near Karlovac. At the University of Vienna (1900 – 1904) he studied Romance and Germanic philology and Indo-European studies, passing his professorship exam in 1906. He received Ph.D. with a thesis on South French toponomastics. As a high-school professor he taught in Banja Luka and served as a librarian of the Royal museum in Sarajevo. In the period from 1919 to his retirement, he worked at the Romance seminar department of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Zagreb, and taught French language and literature at ''Viša pedagoška škola'' in Zagreb. He started writing as a gymnasium student, having published literary reviews under the pseudonym of ''P. S. Mikov''. Later he devoted himself completely to southeastern Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skok
Skok (Cyrillic: Скок) is a Slovenian, Croatian, Belarusian, Ukrainian and Russian surname derived from the Slavic word skok for "leap, jump" or more precisely the Slovene word skočiti for "to jump, to leap" that has its highest density in Slovenia, where it was used in the 15th and 16th century as a nickname for a Christian refugee from the Turks who had fled the territories conquered by the Ottoman Empire to the southeast. Notable people with the name ''Skok'' include: * Craig Skok (born 1947), American former baseball player * Janez Skok (born 1963), Slovenian slalom canoeist * Joža Skok (1931–2017), Croatian literary historian * Matevž Skok (born 1986), Slovenian handball player * Petar Skok (1881–1956), Croatian linguist * Viacheslav Skok (born 1946), Russian water polo player References See also * {{surname, Skok Slovene-language surnames Croatian surnames Belarusian-language surnames Ukrainian-language surnames Russian-language surnames Surnames fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Skok
Craig Richard Skok (born September 1, 1947) is an American former middle relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox, Texas Rangers and Atlanta Braves in all or parts of four seasons spanning 1976–1979. Listed at 6' 0" ft , 190 lb , Skok batted right-handed and threw left-handed. He was born in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Skok attended Mohonasen High School then graduated from Fort Lauderdale High School in 1965. He then attended Broward College and earned a scholarship to Florida State University and joined the Red Sox' organization as an undrafted free agent in 1969. He was previously drafted by both Boston (January 1967) and the Minnesota Twins (June 1967), but did not sign. Skok was selected to the All-Star team in both the Eastern League (1971) and the International League (1972) before his 1973 trial with the Red Sox. Afterwards, he spent the full seasons of 1974–1975 in the Minor Leagues. Before the 1976 season, Skok was sent by Boston alon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matevž Skok
Matevž Skok (born 2 September 1986) is a Slovenian handball player for Sporting CP and the Slovenian national team Slovene or Slovenian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Slovenia, a country in Central Europe * Slovene language, a South Slavic language mainly spoken in Slovenia * Slovenes, an ethno-linguistic group mainly living in Slovenia * Sl .... References External linksEurohandball profile 1986 births Living people Sportspeople from Celje Slovenian male handball players Expatriate handball players Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in Croatia Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Handball-Bundesliga players RK Zagreb players Olympic handball players of Slovenia Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Sporting CP handball players {{Slovenia-handball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
