TheThemelimi foundingi ofKuçit thete Newri Kučinis starts with theme Drekalovići. The etymology of the surname is rooted in the personal name ''Drekale''<ref name=ROI>[http://books.google.com/books?id=9wAdAAAAYAAJ Rječnik osobnih imena]</ref> which is in turn derived from the archaic Slavic name ''Drek''<ref name=ROI/> from the Verb ''Dreka'' (''derati se'') "to scream, shout, outcry", also connected to the word ''Drekalo''<ref name=ROI/> ([[Drekavac]], literally "the screamer"<ref name="Levi">Levi, Pavle (2007) ''Disintegration in frames: aesthetics and ideology in the Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav cinema'' Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-Sdi63FxE7EC&pg=PA181 page 181], ISBN 978-0-8047-5368-5</ref>), the name for a mythological creature in [[Serbian folklore]], a [[bogeyman]] (registered in [[Serbia]], [[Bosnia & Herzegovina]] and [[Montenegro]]).<ref name=SMR>{{cite book
