Talk:Names of Kosovo

message: I'm removing the weasel tag. There is no explanation for why it was placed there in the first place and I can't see any good reason after reading through the article.Osli73 13:59, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weasel tag 

message: I'm sorry but I highly doubt that the name Kos + ovo is a slavic one. When you know that κόσσυφος (kossyfos) in ancient greek means "blackbird" how can you tell to everybody that this name comes from kos (blackbird) + ovo? It's more reasonnable to think that Serbian people have adopted and adapted the byzantine name.
The immediate source is Slavic, regardless of the etymology of the Slavic word itself
Ybgursey (talk) 12:07, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Kos is the name for Blackbird in most Slavic languages, including Polish, which had little contact with Greek. It's most likely a native Slavic name. Kostja (talk) 20:52, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

text: It seems very unlikely that the Poles would adopt a Greek name (through their rather limited contacts with the Byzantines) for a native bird. According to the Etymological Dictionary, the Slavic and Greek versions are cognates from PIE, not borrowings. Kostja (talk) 10:02, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kosovo isn't a slavic name 

message: I would rather say that -ova ending is a Slavic genitive.  Andreas  (T) 00:24, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I totally agree. I have placed ciotation needed sign. I will delete that section if a good quality source is not provided. The morpheme -ova is an Albaniization of Slavic -ovo, which in turn might be related to Thracian -dava. And the fact that the name "Kumanovo" was inspired by a settlement of Cumans, the word itself is still Slavic. Are we going to claim that Tetovo is also Turkic ? Slovenski Volk (talk) 04:49, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: -ova Turkish?

message: Kosovo was part of the medieval Serbian state prior to the Ottoman conquests. The Vatican viewed Kosovo as part of Serbia and included the latter in documents of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith and in the titles of primates and apostolic visitors for example. For Venetian and Latin travellers the Drin () separated Albania from Serbia; for instance Giacomo Soranzo in 1575, Marino Bizzi (1570–1624) in 1610Relatione della visita fatta da me, Marino Bizzi, Arcivescovo d'Antivari, nelle parti della Turchia, Antivari, Albania et Servia alla santità di nostro Signore papa Paolo V. Published as: Franjo Racki (ed.): Izvještaj barskoga nadbiskupa Marina Bizzia o svojem putovanju god. 1610 po Arbanaskoj i Staroj Srbiji, in: Starine, na sviet izdaje Jugoslavenska Akademija Znanosti i Umjetnosti, Zagreb, 20 (1888), pp. 50–156 and Peter Masarechi in 1623 visited Kosovo, which they called Serbia (). Giorgio Bianchi who visited Serbia in 1637–38 included all of modern-day Kosovo, Toplica and northern Macedonia in "Upper" and "Lower Serbia", and described Prizren as "the most beautiful place in all of Serbia". In 1650, bishop Benlić called Prizren the capital of Serbia. Andrea Bogdani and Peter Bogdani also divided Albania and Serbia. Vicko Zmajević grouped the towns of Skopje, Prokuplje, Tetovo, Novi Pazar and several in what is now Kosovo as part of Serbia, and as earlier done divided Albania and Serbia at the Drin.
In the 19th century, the term "Old Serbia" () was used for the territory of Raška, Kosovo and Metohija and the northwestern part of Macedonia, which were south of the borders of the Principality of Serbia.
Ok, this is disputed part. We have here more sources that the one you dispute. Lets go sentence by sentence. First half of the section is not sourced by Bogdanovic. as well as Balcanica section. --Ąnαșταη (ταlκ) 11:33, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Half the section is sourced to Bogdanovic. Notice there are four refs attributed to that source labelled [2].Resnjari (talk) 11:54, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Serbia 

message: 'Another explanation is that the word root kos stems from the root of the Serbian word kos-iti (English to scythe, to mow, Russian kosit’, косить, Polish kosić, češ. kosit, Slovakian kositi, Romanian cosi), so that the toponym would mean a place for mowing or yielding good hay. Over 90 per cent of terms used in agriculture, names of settlements and geographical names in today’s Kosovo are of Serb origin.'
The reference does not support the information in question. If someone can provide a credible source for the content, I have no objection to re-implementing it. Excine (talk) 04:19, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrongly cited ref