Drag

Drag- is a word component in Slavic personal names .

Slavic

Origin and meaning

The origin of the syllable is unclear.

Drogo was a first name in the Franconian Empire since the 7th century. Names with drag- were first mentioned in the area of ​​the Elbe and Baltic Sea Slavs since the 8th century ( Drasco , Dragowit , Ceadrag , Cealadrag, Dragomira ).

In the 13th century Helena Dragaš and Stefan Dragutin were mentioned in the Balkans. Later these forms of name were used mainly in Serbo-Croatian .

In the Slavic languages ​​it is mostly interpreted as drago, dorogo dear, dear .

Personal names

Drag

• Dragan
• Dragaš
• Dragivoje
• Drago
• Dragoljub
• Dragomir , Dragomira
• Dragomysl
• Dragoslav
• Dragutin
• Draško (short form)

Surnames

• Dragzyk (Czech Republic, Romania)
• Dragsky (Czech Republic)

-drag

• Anadrog (Elbe Slavs)
• Ceadrag , Cealadrag (us) (Elbe Slavs)
• Predrag (Serbia)

Place names

• Dragacz (Poland)

literature

• Branislav Grujić, Josip Zidar: Rečnik nemačko-srpskohrvatski, srpskohrvatsko-nemački / Dictionary German-Serbo-Croatian, Serbo-Croatian-German , Prosveta, Beograd 1970