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Bojan Krstić
Bojan (Serbian Cyrillic and Macedonian Cyrillic alphabet, Macedonian: Бојан; Ukrainian Cyrillic alphabet, Ukrainian, Russian Cyrillic alphabet, Russian and Bulgarian Cyrillic: Боян, transcribed ''Boyan'') is a Slavic given name, derived from the Slavic noun ''boj'' "battle." The ending ''-an'' is a suffix frequently found in anthroponyms of Slavic origin. The feminine variant is Bojana (given name), Bojana. The name is recorded in historical sources among Serbs, Bulgarians, Czechs, Polish people, Poles, Croats, Slovenians, Macedonians (ethnic group), Macedonians, Ukrainians and Russians. In Slovenia, it is the 18th most popular name for males, as of 2010. (in Slovenian). Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Root (linguistics)
A root (also known as a root word or radical) is the core of a word that is irreducible into more meaningful elements. In morphology, a root is a morphologically simple unit which can be left bare or to which a prefix or a suffix can attach. The root word is the primary lexical unit of a word, and of a word family (this root is then called the base word), which carries aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Content words in nearly all languages contain, and may consist only of, root morphemes. However, sometimes the term "root" is also used to describe the word without its inflectional endings, but with its lexical endings in place. For example, ''chatters'' has the inflectional root or lemma ''chatter'', but the lexical root ''chat''. Inflectional roots are often called stems. A root, or a root morpheme, in the stricter sense, is a mono-morphemic stem. The traditional definition allows roots to be either free morphemes or bound ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |