Granica
Granica is the Old Slavic word for border . It has been preserved unchanged in most of the Slavic languages (Cyrillic граница). But the original meaning is ' oak '
In the Middle Ages the word was used in the 12./13. In the course of the German colonization of the east, it was taken over from the old Polish graniza, graenizen or greniz as a loan word in German, and gradually expanded over the German-speaking area. It has replaced the German word Mark ( Old High German marka, marcha , border, border area), which still occurs today in compounds, derivatives and names.
The Etymon border is also used today in most Slavic languages and in Romanian: granica (Polish, Croatian, Bosnian), граница / graniza (Russian, Bulgarian), граніца / graniza (Belarusian), граница / granica (Serbian), hranice ( Czech) and hranica (Slovak, Upper Sorbian), graniţă (Romanian). It belongs to the Slavic group of words ran ', e.g. B. Russian грань / gran ' , border line, border, delimiting surface', also 'facet, (edge) surface'.
The following place names are derived from Granica :
- Granica , Poland, actually a former border town
- Kupe granica , Slovenia
- Gratschitzen (also Gratschenitzen, Gratschützen , Slovenian name Gračnica ), a mountain range on the northern slope of the Karawanken in Carinthia
- Granitze , a mountain, and Granitztal , a side valley of the Lavant valley, in Carinthia
- Granitzen and Granitzenbach , in Styria
Various family names are derived from Granica and its variations , such as Granitz, Graenitz or Grantz .
Web links
Map with all linked sites: OSM | WikiMap
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schmitt: Grenzsteine - On the history, typology and preservation of historical boundary signs made of stone. Faber, Manderbachtal 2003. Quoted from Norbert Fuhrmann: Border investigation in the real estate cadastre. Self-published 2018, Chapter 2.1 What is a limit and what is it for? , P. 17 ( Article PDF , 11,370 kB; limit investigation.de).
- ↑ limit. In: Digital dictionary of the German language , dwds.de.
- ↑ Kamilla Kanafa: Border Navigator. Chapter 1 The meaning and conceptual history of "Grenz" , p. 5. ( full article, PDF ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check original and archive link according to instructions and then remove this note. , 134 kB; on ruhr-2030.de; on the subject of border studies ).
