Sovinja Peč (, in older sources also ''Sovina Peč'' and ''Savinja Peč'', german: Sawinapetsch) is a small dispersed settlement in the hills immediately south of the Črnivec Pass in the

Municipality of Kamnik The Municipality of Kamnik (; sl, Občina Kamnik) is a municipality in northern Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Kamnik. Today it is part of the Central Slovenia Statistical Region. It is the 15th-largest municipality by area ...

in the Upper Carniola region of

Slovenia Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, an ...

Name

The name ''Sovinja Peč'' is derived from the surname ''Sovina'' and literally means 'Sovina cliff'. The designation "cliff" refers to Sovina Peak ( sl, Sovinjski vrh, ), which rises north of the village. The older spelling ''Savinja Peč'', along with German ''Sawinapetsch'', shows pretonic

akanje Akanye or akanje ( be, аканне, russian: а́канье, ), literally "''a''-ing", is a sound change in Slavic languages in which the phonemes or are realized as more or less close to . It is a case of vowel reduction. The most familiar ...

. The surname ''Sovina'' is probably derived from the personal name ''Sova'', originally used as a nickname based on the common noun ''sova'' 'owl'.

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Sovinja Peč on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Kamnik {{Kamnik-geo-stub