Etymological and Lexicological Analysis of Romance Borrowings in the Semantic Field of “Kitchen” (Zoganj) in the Speech of the Village of Pijavičino on the Pelješac Peninsula

Rad prezentira leksičku građu koja tumači terminologiju zognja u jednom mjesnom govoru na poluotoku Pelješcu. Cilj je rada prikazati zastupljenost romanizama unutar jedne semantičke skupine podijeljene u nekoliko semantičkih podskupina. Željelo se odrediti radi li se o starijem sloju, dakle o dal matskim leksičkim ostacima ili o novijem sloju talijanskih govora, tj. o mle tačkome jeziku. Građa je prikupljena terenskim radom, tj. ispitivanjem izvornih govornika. Svakom leksemu navedena je njegova etimologija.This article examines the lexical material related to the items used in kitchen (zoganj) in the local speech of the village of Pijavičino in the central part of the Pelješac Peninsula. The material collected is the result of the fi eld work carried out among native speakers. The aim of the article is to analyse the Romance borrowings within this semantic group, divided into four semantic subgroups: Tableware, Table cloth and napkins, Cookware, Kitchen utensils, Furniture. Thirty-seven lexemes have been collected and analysed, of which thirty-one fall within Romance etymology (83.78%). Lexicological and etymological analysis of the collected Romance borrowings shows a marked dominance of a newer layer of the Italian language—that is, Venetian (26 lexemes), but also the presence of a somewhat older layer, e.g., the residues of the Dalmatian language (5 lexemes)