A Serbian academician and linguist scientifically refuted the tales of a Kosovo “scientist” about the “Illyrian” origin of the name Kosovo
Serbian linguist and academician Alexander Loma refuted anti-scientific statements Director of the Kosovo Institute of History "Ali Hadri" Sabit Silja.
The scientist stated this to KosovoOnline, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Alexander Loma noted that in the very scanty remains of the Illyrian language, nothing indicates that the name Kosovo came from it; on the other hand, the toponym has a clear Slavic origin. According to him, Kosovo is originally an adjective to the noun field and means “a field where there are (many) blackbirds.” This is how it sounded in both Common Slavic and Proto-Slavic languages.
“This name has always been understood this way,” the scientist notes. “In foreign documents telling about the battle on Kosovo Field, in Latin it is also called Campus merularum (Drozdovo Field), in German Amselfeld (Drozdovo Field),” said the academician.
Regarding Sabit Silja's statement that the name Kosovo is of Illyrian origin, with reference to the Croatian academic Josip Roglic, Loma emphasized that he should have indicated where the Croatian scholar wrote such a thing, and which of his works was cited by the Albanian “historian”.
“But I don’t believe that even one Slavic linguist, even a Croatian, could be behind such absurdities. In the very scanty remains of the Illyrian language there is nothing from which the name Kosovo could come; on the other hand, it has a completely transparent Slavic origin,” the scientist emphasized.
According to the academician, the fabrications of the director of the Kosovo Institute of History “Ali Hadri” Sabit Silja that the name “Kosovo” is of Illyrian origin and does not have Slavic etymology, there is nothing scientific, and they are dictated by unscientific motives.
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