Analysis of a selected set of English, German and Croatian terms in team sports

Nazivlje koje se rabi u ekipnim sportovima u raznim jezicima s jedne strane često ima zajedničke korijene, a s druge je rezultat stvaranja pojmova i pripadajućeg nazivlja u nekom sportu neovisno o pojmovlju i nazivlju u drugim ekipnim sportovima. Cilj ovog rada bio je usporediti sličnosti i razlike u pet sportova ekipnih sportova – nogometu, ragbiju, rukometu, košarci i američkom nogometu, i to na tri jezika – u engleskom, njemačkom i hrvatskom. Analiza je pokazala terminološku povezanost među pet analiziranih ekipnih sportova, i to u sva tri jezika, koja je pak rezultat povezanosti tijekom povijesnog razvoja tih sportova. Naime, povijest sporta jasno pokazuje da u modernom dobu postoje poveznice među ekipnim sportovima koje se odnose na sličnosti u izgledu sportskih igrališta te posljedično i u nazivima za sama igrališta, kao i u nazivima za dijelove igrališta te igračkim pozicijama.Terminology used in team sports in various languages frequently has common roots, but it is also the result of creating concepts and accompanying terms in a particular sport regardless of concepts and terms designating them in other team sports. The aim of this final paper was to compare similarities and differences among five team sports – soccer, rugby, team handball, basketball and American football, in three langauges – English, German and Croatian. The analysis has shown terminological connectedness among the five team sports in among all three languages, which is the result of interrelationship throughout the historical development of these sports. Namely, the history of sport clearly shows that in modern time there links among team sports that relate to the similarities in the shape of sporting grounds, and consequently in terms designating them, as well as in other terms, such as parts of the sports grounds and names of playing positions of players