The primitive plow used by peasants in Sisan, a small rural district near Pula in the Croatian part of the Istrian peninsula, appears to reflect typical ancient Roman images of plows, although its ...importance has degenerated over time into a superfluous tool. As the Old Istrian dialects have been reduced under triple pressure from Italian, Croatian, & Istro-Venetian to six localities including Sisan, where they are preserved in daily life by small, separated ethnic groups, the Sisan words vargano 'plow' & zogo 'yoke', together with 10 terms related to the plow & six terms referring to the yoke, are presented with definitions, etymologies, & cultural commentary. 29 References. J. Hitchcock
From interviews with traditional shipbuilders (N unspecified) at two sites in Croatia, Betina (Northern Dalmatia) & the Adriatic island of Korcula, 25 terms related to shipbuilding are presented in ...an adaptation of Standard Croatian orthography with diacritics marking tone & vowel length. Etymological commentary elucidates the Latin & Italian origins of the terms & traces the cultural & technological history of the terms to clarify motivations for semantic shifts. 67 References. Adapted from the source document
