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Meaning of a Bosnian surname

by Rian (guest)

7/29/2004, 1:02 AM

Is there anybody who knows the origin and meaning of a Bosnian surname Ðikiæ? If you can't see all the characters it can be spelled Djikic, and it's pronounced Geekich. It's a Bosnian Muslim family from the town of Mostar in Herzegovina, and a part of the town bears the name Ðikovina. It resembles the formation of of Herzegovina, if it can help - Herzeg-Duke in German, possessive masculine suffix -ov (belonging to the Duke), feminine ending -ina (to denote it is a land or country, since countries are feminine in Bosnian). I suppose the root is Ðik-. This is as far as I got. Can anybody help me??? Thank you in advance!

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- Christo (guest) +2

8/3/2004, 8:15 AM

Dzikic comes from a male name (or nickname) Dzika. I think the name can be met among both Muslims and Christians.

- Rian (guest) +1

8/6/2004, 11:28 AM

I'd also like to thank you. One more question - do you know what it means? Previous post suggests "wild", and with the diminutive suffix -iæ it would be something along the lines of "little wild one". Again tnx to both Sean and Christo!

- Christo (guest)

8/30/2004, 6:56 AM

I reject the meaning "wild" because the change of "d" to "dz" cannot be explained.

Probably, Dzika is a nickname for George but I am not sure.

- Sean Foglai (guest) +1

7/29/2004, 10:52 AM

Just a guess, I have a Russian name site at:

http://www.sca.org/heraldry/paul/d.html

One word look possible, Dik- that means wild ...check it out ...

- Rian (guest)

8/6/2004, 11:20 AM

I'd like to thank you for taking the trouble of helping me with this. Sorry it took me so long. :-)

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