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Ćić (plural Ćići, (スロベニア語:Čiči), (ドイツ語:Tschitschen), (イタリア語:Cicci, Chicchi, Ciccio)), is an ethnonym and exonym in a broader sense for all the people in the mountainous Ćićarija area in Croatia, with a northern part in Slovenia. Alongside the term ''Ćiribici'', in the narrow sense it is an exonym referring to a community of the so-called Istro-Romanians in the village Žejane in a small part of eastern Ćićarija, and the villages around the former Lake Čepić west of the Učka range in Istria, Croatia. ==Etymology== The first, and unspecified thesis of possible Romanian origin was given by Franc Miklošič in 1860 when all newcomers to karst, ''Čiči'', proclaimed as Romanians. Linguist and phonologist Josip Ribarić, a native of Vodice in Ćićarija, disapproved this thesis with the historical documents, anthroponyms and language dialects in the karst. ''Ćići'' initially meant Balkan population who spoke Romance language and was identical to the term ''Morlachs'' (i.e. ''Vlachs''), and became an exonym for all newcomers to the karst plateau. Ribarić noted the thesis by Arthur Byhan (1899), according which ''Chichi'' (ch/ci=ć) comes from the Italian word ''cicaleccio'' (from verb ''cicalare''), which means "insistent and confused (indistinct) talking". They were so named by the Slavs as they couldn't understand them. Petar Šimunović similarly proposed Croatian verb variations ''čičerati'' or ''čičarati'', ''čačarat'' and ''k'ik'rat'', which means "speak". Ribarić noted that Croats in Istria by ''čičerati'' meant "speaking Istro-Romanian", while ''drakulati'' (from ''draku'', "dragon, devil") in the village of Mune for the speech of Žejane. Šimunović also proposed the interrogative pronoun ''ći'' (''što/ča''?) in the meaning "what?", while Ribarić the syllable ''či'' found in all the mentioned words, which the Romance speaking Vlachs often used and was unusual to the Slavs.〔 Ribarić noted another two terms that could answer the origin; ''Cincari'' for Aromanians in Macedonia, Bulgaria and Serbia, and ''Ćiribirci'' in Istria. In Istro-Romanian language was noted secondary palatalization, in village Šušnjevica ''t'' becomes ''ț'' ("c"), in Nova Vas and Žejane becomes ''č''. The term ''Cincari'' or ''Tsinstari'' comes from Vulgar Latin ''tsintsi'', Megleno-Romanian ''ținți'', meaning numeral five, and as such deriving tsintsi-ținți-cinci-činči-(n)-čiči-ćići. The term ''Ćiribîrci'' derives from ''Čiribiri'', from ''čire'' (lat. qui ne, ține-cine-țire-cire-čire, ''who''/''you'') and ''bire'' from ''bine'' (lat. bene, ''good''), meaning a greeting "hold well". Ignaz Hermann Bidermann in 1877 interpreted it as a derivative of "''ćîć''" from genitive plural of "čičā", which derives from Slavic word "čiko" or "čika" meaning old man, or uncle. Ribarić opposed it, and noted "''Ćìć''" is in nominative singular, and "čiča" is not found in any Istrian dialect. Ćić or Čič, in Northern Chakavian as ''Ćȉć'' is pronounced more softly then in Shtokavian dialect, in Italian same as Shtokavian, while in Žejane as ''Čȉč''. Other exonyms and its variations include ''Čičerani'', ''Cicerani'', ''Čiribiri'', ''Čiribirci''. The residents, especially older generations of Ćićarija, for themselves rather used ethnonym ''Slovinci'' or ''Slavinci'', and for language ''Slovinski'' or ''Slavinski''. Over the centuries the national and political name of Croats in Ćićarija was forgotten for some time, mostly due to lack of cultural institutions and the national revival influenced by Slovenian priests and teachers. Only from the 19th century through church and school again revived the ethnonym ''Hrvat''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ćići」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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