Name

The name of the city is derived from aSlavic
 form *"Prišьčь", a possessive adjective from the personal name *"Prišьkъ", (preserved in the Kajkavian
 surname"Prišek", in the Old Polish
 personal name"Przyszek", and in the Polish surname"Przyszek") and the derivational suffix "-ina"'belonging to X and his kin'.["citation needed
"]The name is most likely a patronymic
 of the personal name *"Prišь", preserved as a surname in Polish "Przysz" and Sorbian
 "Priš", a hypocoristic
 of the Slavic personal name"Pribyslavъ".[4]
 A false etymology
["citation needed
"] connects the name Priština with Serbo-Croatian
 "prišt" (пришт), meaning 'ulcer' or 'tumour', referring to its 'boiling'.[5]
 However, this explanation cannot be correct, as Slavic place names ending in "-ina" corresponding to an adjective and/or name of an inhabitant lacking this suffix are built from personal names or denote a person and never derive, in these conditions, from common nouns (SNOJ
 2007: "loc. cit."). The inhabitants of this city call themselves"Prishtinali" in local Gheg Albanian
 or"Prištevci" (Приштевци) in the local Serbian dialect.