Abstract:
The semantic group animal origin product, as the total language corpus indicates, contains a line of individual, particular meanings like meso, koža, krzno, vuna, dlaka, mleko, mast, kost, kora (oklop), izmet (đubre, smeće) and smrad (zadah). Some of these subgroups are spread over the entire Serbian language area, and some of them, like mleko, are regional by their character. The analyzed corpus indicates the broad diapason of suffixes (and suffix derivatives) that participate in formation of the mentioned group, i. e. of the individualized semantic groups: -ina, -etina, -ovina, -njak, -injak, -ak, -ica, -enica, -ac, -oljak, -ištak, -ljak, -ština, -ača, -ovnjača, -edina.