-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 -an)
• Serbo-Croatian Dragić (m.) (with suffix -ić)
• Serbo-Croatian Dragica (f.) (with suffix -ica)
• Serbo-Croatian Dragoje (m.) (with suffix -oje)
• Serbo-Croatian Dragoš (m.) (with suffix -oš)

Dithematic names

Prefixed

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

Suffixed

• Serbo-Croatian Ljubodrag (from ljub, "love, to like")
• Serbo-Croatian Milidrag, Milodrag (from milo, "love, to like")
• Serbo-Croatian Miodrag (from mio, "tender, cute")
• Serbo-Croatian Predrag (from pre, "very, much")
• Serbo-Croatian Svedrag (from sve, "all")
• Serbo-Croatian Vojdrag, Vojidrag (from voj, "war")
• Serbo-Croatian Vukdrag, Vukodrag (from vuk, "wolf")
• Serbo-Croatian Živodrag (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.