-drag

-drag (Cyrillic: -драг) and -drog is a common Slavic given name word root, drag meaning "dear, beloved", in single-lexemed and dithematic (two lexemes) names.

Examples[]

Single-lexeme names[]

• Serbo-Croatian Dragan (m.); Dragana (f.) (with past participle suffix -an)
• Serbo-Croatian Dragić (m.) (with diminutive suffix -ić)
• Serbo-Croatian Dragica (f.) (with suffix )
• Serbo-Croatian Dragoje (m.) (with suffix )
• Serbo-Croatian (m.) (with suffix )
• Serbo-Croatian Dragoš (m.) (with suffix )
• Serbo-Croatian Dragiša (m.) (with suffix )
• Serbo-Croatian Dragutin (m.) (with suffix )

Dithematic names[]

Prefixed

• Serbo-Croatian Dragimir, Dragomir (from mir, "peace, world")
• Serbo-Croatian , Dragoslav (m.); (f.) (from slava, "glory, fame")
• Serbo-Croatian , (from voj, "war")
• Serbo-Croatian Dragoljub (from ljub, "love, to like")
• Serbo-Croatian (from rad, "happy, eager, to care")
• Serbo-Croatian (from sav, "all, every")

Suffixed

• Serbo-Croatian (from ljub, "love, to like")
• Serbo-Croatian , (from milo, "love, to like")
• Serbo-Croatian Miodrag (from mio, "tender, cute")
• Serbo-Croatian Predrag (from pre, "very, much")
• Serbo-Croatian (from sve, "all")
• Serbo-Croatian , (from voj, "war")
• Serbo-Croatian Vukdrag, (from vuk, "wolf")
• Serbo-Croatian (from živo, "living")

See also[]

• Slavic dithematic names

References[]

• Mate Šimundić (1988). Rječnik osobnih imena. Nakladni zavod Matice hrvatske.
• Milica Grković (1977). Rečnik ličnih imena kod Srba. Vuk Karadžić.
• Radojica Jovičević (1985). Lična imena u staroslovenskom ǰeziku. Filološki fakultet Beogradskog Univerziteta.
• Katarina Stojanović (2007). Srpska imena: narodna i hrišćanska. Gramatik. ISBN 978-86-84421-51-9.