From the name's structure of Pohorje

Abstract

The territory of Pohorje is not united in view of the dialect; there are three dialects: severnopohorsko-remšniško in the north part, mežiško in the west and južnopohorsko in the south-eastern part of the territory. Regional variation seems to be realized predominantly in phonology, but vocabulary is also distinctive. Within each of the dialect areas, there is considerable variation; common nouns, which are used in the role of geographical names on Pohorje, are distributed such as follows: vrh and brdo are used in general, gora is used only on the south--eastern skirts of Pohorje, breg and hrib in the north part, kogel both in the north and the south parts. In the majority of cases all these nouns function as heads of the noun phrases with possessive genetive as determinative, e. g. Baronovo brdo. — Brdo is a Common Slavic lexem, which was developed in a large family of words in Slovene, e. g. brdce, brdina, brdinje, brdar, brdič, za brd je etc. Many of these nouns are used as geographical proper names; more than 250 examples are found in the Atlas Slovenije, with the inclusion of derived words, of course. Most of these are distributed in the west part of Slovenija. There are two sources, which are the cause of so many morphonemic variants: the first source is the modern vocal reduction, the second one is the loss of neutra.