Message: "Obituaries" - Behind the Name

[Opinions] Obituaries

by Sofia

2/24/2011, 12:34 AM

From Croatia, year of birth is in brackets.

FEMALE:

Agata (1920)
Agneza (1941)
Anka (1927)
Danica (1935)
Dragica (1928, 1930)
Ema (1917)
Katarina (1930, 1939)
Leandra (1921) –I’ve never seen Leandra here!
Mara (1931)
Marija (1942)
Miljka (1930)
Nevenka (1934)
Vera (1933)
Viktorija (1929)

MALE:

Adam (1935)
Đuro (1933) -see Duro
Dušan (1930) -see Dusan
Josip (1933)
Lazo (1936) -from Lazar
Marko (1932)
Milan (1939)
Mirko (1943)
Pavao (1933)
Simo (1942)
Slobodan (1949)
Vinko (1941)
Žarko (1958) -see Zarko

#obituaries

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- Bear +1

2/24/2011, 1:33 PM

It's good to see they all got nice, long lives -- except for maybe Zarko. :-(

What gorgeous names they had. My favorites:

Agata
Agneza
Danica (how arou you pronouncing this in Croatia? "dah-NEET-sah?" Or is that somewhere else in Europe. Sorry, my ugly American slip is showing.)
Ema
Katarina
Leandra (great name!)
Mara / Marija
Vera (I hope this one is becoming more popular over here)
Viktorija

Adam
Josip
Lazar
Marko (!!!)
Milan
Slobodan (I refuse to allow one awful person ruin a perfectly good name)
Vinko
Zarko

:-D

- Sofia

2/24/2011, 1:57 PM

Danica is pronounced DAH-nee-tzah here and as far as I know it's this way in every language apart from English (and even in English some pronounce it the correct way).

Slobodan's pretty much ruined for ever here.

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