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The Morphology of Lithuanian Toponyms – Differences and Parallels of Different Classes of Names

Harald Bichlmeier

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    The participation in the project “Vakarinių pietų aukštaičių vietovardžių integravimas į Lietuvos vietovardžių geoinformacinę duomenų bazę ir jų kilmės bei motyvacijos tyrimai” [The integration of Western South Aukštaitian toponyms into the Lituanian geoinformational database and studies on their origin and motivation] led to two interesting results: 1) It seems necessary to refine (Lithuanian) terminology and 2) there can be found remarkable differences in the percentage of the morphological (and syntactical) structures used to build names for flowing bodies of water (potamonyms) and names for standing bodies of water (limnonyms). It turns out that in the researched area in limnonyms the percentage of derivational formations is significantly higher and that of compound names significantly lower than in potamonyms. More research needs to be done to find out, whether this is a characteristic of the researched area or a general tendency all over Lithuania.

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S aipsniai / A icles 117 HARALD BICHLMEIER Sächsische Akademie de Wissenscha en zu Leipzig Ma in-Lu he -Uni e si ä Halle-Wi enbe g Fields o esea ch: onomas ics ( oponymy), his o ical phonology o he Ge manic languages, Indo-Eu opean linguis ics, Aljamiado- ex s. DOI: h ps://doi.o g/10.35321/all82-06 THE MORPHOLOGY OF LITHUANIAN TOPONYMS – DIFFERENCES AND PARALLELS OF DIFFERENT CLASSES OF NAMES Lie u ių oponimijos mo ologija – į ai ių a dų g upių ski umai i pa alelės ANNOTATION The pa icipa ion in he p ojec “Vaka inių pie ų aukš aičių ie o a džių in eg a imas į Lie u os ie o a džių geoin o macinę duomenų bazę i jų kilmės bei mo y acijos y imai” [The in eg a ion o Wes e n Sou h Aukš ai ian oponyms in o he Li uanian geoin o ma ional da abase and s udies on hei o igin and mo i a ion] led o wo in e es ing esul s: 1) I seems necessa y o e ine (Li huanian) e minology and 2) he e can be ound ema kable di e ences in he pe cen age o he mo phological (and syn ac ical) s uc u es used o build names o lowing bodies o wa e (po amonyms) and names o s anding bodies o wa e (limnonyms). I u ns ou ha in he esea ched a ea in limnonyms he pe cen age o de i- a ional o ma ions is signi ican ly highe and ha o compound names signi ican ly lowe han in po amonyms. Mo e esea ch needs o be done o ind ou , whe he his is a cha ac- e is ic o he esea ched a ea o a gene al endency all o e Li huania. KEYWORDS: po amonyms/ i e -names, limnonyms/lake-names, mo phology o onyms, syn ac ical s uc u e o onyms, wes e n sou h aukš ai- ian/dzukian oponomas ics. HARALD BICHLMEIER 118 Ac a Linguis ica Li huanica LXXXII ANOTACIJA Pa ašy i šį s aipsnį paska in o p ojek e „Vaka inių pie ų aukš aičių ie o a džių in e- g a imas į Lie u os ie o a džių geoin o macinę duomenų bazę i jų kilmės bei mo y acijos y imai“, ku iame eko daly au i i a lik i y imus, gau os įdomios iš ados: 1) pasi odo, bū ina pe žiū ė i i ikslin i lie u iškąją oponimų da ybos e miniją; 2) susuma us ezul- a us pas ebė a didelių ski umų mo ologinėje (i sin aksinėje) upė a džių (po amonimų) i eže ų a dų (limnonimų) da yboje. Ty imas pa odė, kad didžioji dalis iš i ų limnonimų y a ediniai, a i kščiai negu po amonimai, pas a ieji dažniausiai y a sudu iniai da iniai. Reikalinga a lik i daugiau y imų, siekian išsiaiškin i, a okia da yba būdinga ik iš i am egionui, a isai Lie u os e i o ijai. ESMINIAI ŽODŽIAI: po amonimai / upė a džiai, limnonimai / eže ų a dai, onimų mo ologija, onimų sin aksinė s uk ū a, pie aka ių aukš aičių / dzūkų oponomas ika. 1. INTRODUCTION1 This pape in ends o gi e an insigh in o di e ences and pa allels in di e en classes o names wi hin Li huanian oponyms. 1.1. Thus, a he beginning, we ha e o cla i y, wha exac ly we a e alking abou , wha we unde s and by oponyms e c. Toponyms shall be unde s ood he e in he wides sense o he wo d, ha is as onyms/ names o all kinds o opoi, i.e. places – in Ge man his would be O snamen and Ö lichkei snamen combined. This is mo e o less he way in which Li huanian oponimai ends o be unde s ood. Thus, in p inciple, we a e alking he e abou he whole a ay o names o places in he sense o geog aphical en i ies, ha is names o inhabi ed places on he one hand, as he e a e owns, illages, a ms eads, houses e c., which a e oponyms in he na ow sense o he wo d, in he way Ge man O sname is o en used, and names o no inhabi ed geog aphical uni s on he o he hand, as he e a e - d ymonyms (names o woods and o es s), - o onyms (names o hills and moun ains), 1 This pape is based on he alk wi h he same i le p esen ed in No embe 2019 a he „4-oji a p au inė mokslinė Aleksand o Vanago kon e encija: Tik iniai žodžiai e d ėje i e d ė ik iniu- ose žodžiuose. Lie u ių kalbos ins i u as, Vilnius / The 4 h In e na ional Scien i ic Aleksand as Vanagas Con e ence: Onyms in Space and Space in Onyms. The Ins i u e o he Li huanian Language, Vilnius“. – The s uc u e, con en s and cha ac e o he alk deli e ed a he con e ence was mos ly e ained in his p in ed e sion. S aipsniai / A icles 119 The Mo phology o Li huanian Toponyms – Di e ences and Pa allels o Di e en Classes o Names - po amonyms (names o i e s, c eeks e c.), - limnonyms (names o lakes), - helonyms (names o swamps), - ag onyms (names o ields), - leimononyms (names o meadows). O cou se he e a e also names o seas – halassonyms – bu hey did no play a ole in a p ojec doing esea ch in a landlocked a ea (mo e on ha p o- jec u he down). 1.2. Fo all hese kinds o oponyms he Li huanian language o e s a mul i- ude o possibili ies, how o o m hem. The s anda d ways o build Li huanian oponyms a e: wo d o ma ion, i.e. de i a ion and composi ion, on he one hand and he o ma ion o syn agma ic g oups on he o he . In bo h ypes we do no ind any hing ha is no also known om he appella i al lexicon o Li huanian o om Li huanian syn ax. Bo h main ypes can be di ided up in o se e al subg oups, as will be shown in he nex pa ag aphs. 1.3. The analysis o di e en ypes o oponyms shows ha we ind he same means o o ma ion in all hose di e en onymic classes, bu we also ind ha he pe cen age o names co e ed by each o he ypes can di e signi ican ly. 2. THE PROJECT AND ITS RESULTS In wha ollows I wan o p esen mainly h ee hings: - some o he esul s o a p ojec om he yea s 2017 and 2018 a he Ins i u e o he Li huanian Language, un by G asilda Blažienė and Laimu is Bilkis, - some conside a ions abou he adi ional supg ouping o he mo phological ways o name- o ma ion and wha hey a e called and inally, also a esul om he jus men ioned p ojec , - some conside a ions abou a well-known i e -name and abou a lake-name ela i ely well-known amongs esea che s p obing in o he Old-Eu opean hyd onymy – and i s connec ion wi h a i e -name in Li huania and one in Sou he n Ty olia. 2.1. The p ojec alluded o, was oughly esea ching Sou h-Wes Li huanian place-names, mic o oponyms and hyd onyms in hei Eu opean con ex (p o- jec i le: “Vaka inių pie ų aukš aičių ie o a džių in eg a imas į Lie u os ie- o a džių geoin o macinę duomenų bazę i jų kilmės bei mo y acijos y imai” [The in eg a ion o Wes e n Sou h Aukš ai ian oponyms in o he Li uanian geoin o ma ional da abase and s udies on hei o igin and mo i a ion]). Finally a book in Ge man wi h he esul s om ha p ojec appea ed in Janua y 2020: HARALD BICHLMEIER 120 Ac a Linguis ica Li huanica LXXXII Blažienė, G asilda / Bilkis, Laimu is (eds.): Die O s-, Flu - und Gewässe namen Süddwes aukš ai iens. (Sch i en eihe de Gesellscha ü bal ische S udien 2), Hambu g: Baa 2019. In i he e can be ound – besides a icles by he wo al eady men ioned p ojec leade s, G asilda Blažienė (on se lemen names, c . Blažienė 2019) and Laimu is Bilkis (on helonyms, c . Bilkis 2019) – pape s by Ve onika Adamony ė (on ag onyms, c . Adamony ė 2019), Dalia Kačinai ė-V ubliauskienė (on o o- nyms, c . Kačinai ė-V ubliauskienė 2019), Ilona Mickienė (on d ymonyms, c . Mickienė 2019a, and on leimononyms, c . Mickienė 2019b) and by he au ho o his a icle (Bichlmeie 2020a). 2.2. Tha p ojec esea ched oponimai in he Li huanian sense o he wo d in he Li huanian egion Dzūkija, which is he Wes e n pa o he Sou he n Aukš ai ija egion bo de ing on Poland and Bela us. In he cen e o in e es we e he Rayons o Aly us and Lazdijai, pa ially also D uskininkai, mainly a eas wes o he i e Nemunas. Dialec ally his is also he wes e n sou h-aukš ai ian egion, Li h. aka inių pie ų aukš aičių, also called Wes e n Dzūkian, Li h. aka- inių dzūkų. In e es ingly, inspi e o bo de ing on Sla ic se led a eas and inspi e o he ac ha also in he esea ched a ea he e a e qui e a numbe o speake s o Sla ic languages and nume ous se lemen s wi h a mixed Sla ic and Li huanian popula ion, he numbe o oponyms in he wide sense wi h a Sla onic e y- mology can be e y low in ce ain ypes o names, o example in lake- and i - e -names i is abou 2-3 %. In o he s, o example in meadow-names, i is – as one would expec i o be anyway – some i e o en imes ha numbe . On he o he hand, o cou se, he esea ch ool o he p ojec , he Li huanian geo-da a-base o oponyms (Lie u os ie o a džių geoin o macinė duomenų bazė; c . h p://lkiis.lki. l / lie u os- ie o a dziu- geoin o macine-duomenu-baze) migh be somewha lopsided a ha poin , as a leas o he egion esea ched in he p ojec , he da a had been collec ed mos ly du ing some scien i ic explo a ions o he a ea in 1935-36, in which p edominan ly speake s o Li huanian seem o ha e been asked mo e o less exclusi ely abou Li huanian o ms o oponyms. Thus he co esponding oponyms o he same places, i e s, lakes e c. used by speake s o Polish and Bela usian ha e usually no been eco ded. 2.3. Bu some hing else can be seen a he clea ly, namely ha we a e in an a ea, whe e we can ind emnan s o a Wes -Bal ic subs a e, adi ionally a ibu ed o Ya ingian. Mainly i can be disce ned om Eas -Bal ic o ms by he appea ance o s, z a places, whe e š, ž migh be expec ed. This can be exempli ied on h ee examples aken om he co pus o i e -names o he a ea: S aipsniai / A icles 121 The Mo phology o Li huanian Toponyms – Di e ences and Pa allels o Di e en Classes o Names Sãknas m. (2) Ve (42868), Saknius m. (?) Ve (42868) s. Li h. šaknìs . ‚ oo ‘;2 Azãgis m. (2) Lp (42933) c . OP . assegis (*azegīs), Li h. až(e)gs, ež(e)gs ‚Gymnocephalus ce nua (a ish)‘;3 Zeb iùs m. (4) K (126445) s. Li h. žẽb as ‚di y, unwashed‘.4 2.4. The au ho ’s pa in ha p ojec consis ed o analyzing he 423 names o bodies o s anding and lowing wa e , comp ising 240 limnonyms and 183 po amonyms.5 And his will now ake us back o mo phology: 2.4.1. As men ioned al eady in he in oduc ion, he e a e h ee main ypes o o ming oponyms in Li huanian – and usually we ind hese ypes also in ac ually all o he Indo-Eu opean languages in Eu ope – al hough in di e en quan i ies, o cou se. These ypes a e de i ed names, compound names and syn agma ic names. In all h ee ypes, we can di e en ia e be ween names made exclusi ely om appella i al ma e ial and names con aining also onymic ma e ial. Fo de i ed names, e.g., he di e ence is be ween deappella i al de i a i es and deonymic de i a i es. Bu hese heo e ical di e en ia ions come wi h some limi a ions and need o be explained in a mo e p ecise way. 2.4.2. Especially in need o such mo e p ecise explana ions a e he deonymic o ma ions. They a e a ely con e sions o quasi-con e sions (on con e sions see below § 2.4.4.) wi hou a su ix om o he kinds o names. In he p e- dominan numbe o cases hey a e o med by means o o e su ixa ion. The dependency on he base wo d, he de i a ional basis, is usually exp essed by a possessi e su ix o a diminu i e su ix. So, o example, he name o a ibu a y o a i e can be o med by de i ing a diminu i e o m om he name o he main i e (e.g. Sa ica as he name o a ibu a y o he Sa a in Slo enia),6 o he name o a bay o a lake can be o med by de i ing a o m wi h a possessi e su ix om he name o he ac ual lake. 2.4.3. Also deappella i al de i ed names can pose p oblems o analysis. In many cases we a e no able o ell wi h con idence, whe he he su ixa ion 2 C . Li EW 957; no egis e ed in Vanagas 1970; c . Vanagas 1981a: 287; Vanagas 1981b: 104, 135; ALEW 1003 . 3 C . Li EW 28, 118, 125; Sa ukynas 1960: 299; Sa ukynas 1966b: 169; Vanagas 1970: 11, 32, 65; Vanagas 1981a: 54; Vanagas 1981b: 77; PKEŽ 1: 104 .; PKE޲ 49; ALEW 271 .; LVŽ 1: 249. 4 C . Li EW 1294; Vanagas 1970: 68, 69; Vanagas 1981a: 394; Vanagas 1981b: 135. 5 Fo he ull co pus c . Bichlmeie 2019a, 2019b. 6 C . Bezlaj 1956–1961: 2, 171–174; ESSZI 367 . HARALD BICHLMEIER 122 Ac a Linguis ica Li huanica LXXXII happened du ing he p ocess o onymiza ion – o al eady in he appella i al sphe e: I he de i a ion happened al eady in he appella i al sphe e, hen o cou se he name came in o being by he ac o con e sion wi h ze o-su ixa ion om an appella i e in o an onym. As especially possessi e and diminu i e su ixes a e e y p oduc i e in Li huanian, he ac ha a ce ain o ma ion is no booked in a dic iona y does no mean much in ha con ex . Anyway we may say ha o cou se he e a e se e al su ixes in Li huanian which u n up mo e o en han o he s in he o ma ion o names, bu he e does no seem o be a single su ix which can be called an onymic su ix in he sense ha i is used exclusi ely o o m names. The same is ue, o example, also o Sla ic amily names (c . Bichlmeie 2020) – and we may ac ually suppose ha his is a uni e sal ea u e a leas o he Indo-Eu opean languages o Eu ope: The e is no su ix exclusi ely o ming names. Bu o cou se he e a e su ixes popping up in ha sphe e mo e o en han o he s. 2.4.4. Be o e we p oceed o some Li huanian e minological special ies in name- o ma ion, le ’s ha e a look a wha was jus called ‘con e sions’. I call ‘con e sions’ de i a ional p ocesses wi h ze o-su ixa ion. This means a ce - ain wo d u ns in o ano he wo d wi hou a change o o m. He e we ind ou sub ypes: a) ‘simple’ con e sions, in which an appella i e (a noun) is con e ed in o an onym, cp. e.g. Balañdis m. Ku (40169): < Li h. balañdis m. ‘do e’;7 b) ‘double’ con e sions, in which besides he con e sion o an appella i e in o an onym also akes place a con e sion om an adjec i e in o a noun, cp. e.g. Bedùgnis m. Ka (40254, 42932), Ku (40174) < Li h. bedùgnis ‘wi hou g ound o bo om’;8 c) ‘pseudocon e sions’ a e con e sions looking like simple con e sions, which a e indeed back o ma ions, howe e , cp. e.g. he lake-name Šauls m. (4) < *Šaũlio/-ių ẽže as (no < šauls m. ‚hun e , shoo e ‘);9 7 C . Li EW 31; Sa ukynas 1961: 219; Sa ukynas/Vanagas/Vi kauskas/Vosyly ė/E many ė 1963: 12; Vanagas 1970: 31; no egis e ed in Vanagas 1981a; c . Vanagas 1981b: 39, 77; ALEW 88; LVŽ 1: 322 . 8 C . Li EW 38, 108; Sa ukynas 1961: 221; Sa ukynas/Vanagas/Vi kauskas/Vosyly ė/E many ė 1963: 16; Vanagas 1970: 44; Vanagas 1981a: 60 .; ALEW 101, 238; LVŽ 1: 414. – C . also he limnonym Bedùgnė . (2) Al (42731) in Bichlmeie 2019a: § 2.2.1.1.1. 9 C . Li EW 125; no egis e ed in Vanagas 1970; c . Vanagas 1981a: 327; ALEW 271. S aipsniai / A icles 123 The Mo phology o Li huanian Toponyms – Di e ences and Pa allels o Di e en Classes o Names d) ‘onymic con e sions’, in which he ans e o an onym om one onymic class o ano he onymic class akes place, cp. e.g. he lake-name Gadeikà . Š (42799) < PN Gadéika.10 2.5. Le ’s now ha e a look a wo special ies o he Li huanian e minology o wo d- o ma ion and name- o ma ion. The i s one a e he so-called ‘end- ing-de i a i es’, Ge m. Endungsablei ungen, Li h. galūnių ediniai, he o he ones a e he so-called ‘p e ix-de i a i es’, Ge m. P ä ixablei ungen, Li h. p iešdėlių ediniai. 2.5.1. These ‘ending-de i a i es’, Ge m. Endungsablei ungen, Li h. galūnių ediniai u n ou o be a somewha inhomogeneous g oup: 2.5.1.1. Among hese o ma ions coun : - simple plu aliza ions o no mal appella i es – so ac ually he e is no de i- a ion wha soe e – and - names which show a synch onic s em- owel al e a ion be ween he name and he appella i e. This is, howe e , me ely a desc ip ion o wha we see, no an explana ion. The explana ion o hese o ma ions seems o be a bi di e en . They mos ly o a leas a hei co e seem o be de i a i es wi h a su ix con- aining yod. Thus hese o ma ions a e in he end ac ually de i a i es o a a he a chaic kind, as he su ix *-io- se ed o build de i a i es, mos ly adjec i es o pe inence, al eady in P o o-Indo-Eu opean. Thus, i he e is an appella- i e o an onym XY and we add a su ix *-io- we ge a wo d meaning ‘belong- ing o pe aining o XY’. Nice examples o ha a e Old Sla ic/Old Russian place-names as, e.g., Ja osla -lь ‘Ya osla ’s (ci y)’ < *Ya osla -ia- ← ORuss. PN Ya osla ъ, a simila case is he place-name Pol. P zemyśl e c. In ou co pus we ind, e.g., Ángė . (1) Si (42698) < *angi-iā- ← Li h. angì-s . ‘snake’;11 Angs m. (4) Si (42698) < *angi-ia- ← Li h. angì-s . ‘snake’;12 10 C . Sa ukynas/Vanagas/Vi kauskas/Vosyly ė/E many ė 1963: 41; Sa ukynas 1966a: 185, 186; Vanagas 1970: 107, 108, 134; Vanagas 1981a: 102; Vanagas 1981b: 32; Zinke ičius 2008: 281; LVŽ 3: 7. 11 C . Li EW 10; no egis e ed in Sa ukynas/ Vanagas/Vi kauskas/Vosyly ė/E many ė 1963; no egis e ed in Sa ukynas 1960; no egis e ed in Vanagas 1970; c . Vanagas 1981a: 42 (ngė acco ding o Būga apud Vanagas s. . Anginas); ALEW 40 .; LVŽ 1: 98 . 12 C . Li EW 10; Sa ukynas/ Vanagas/Vi kauskas/Vosyly ė/E many ė 1963: 6; no egis e ed in Sa ukynas 1960; no egis e ed in Vanagas 1970; c . Vanagas 1981a: 42; Vanagas 1981b: 77; ALEW 40 .; LVŽ 1: 98 . HARALD BICHLMEIER 124 Ac a Linguis ica Li huanica LXXXII Dumblis m. (2) Ka (42940), Ka (42945), Lz (40151) < *dumbl-ia- ← Li h. dumblas m. ‘mud (on he g ound o a lake)’;13 Samãnius m. (2) Ka (42923) < *saman-iu- ← Li h. sãmana, samanà . ‘moss’;14 Nemajūnė . Lz, Š (37117) < *Nemaiūn-iiā- ← Li h. PlN Nemajūn-ai m. Pl.15 2.5.1.2. So we come o he conclusion, ha his synch onic class is one which simply does no exis in he diach onic pe spec i e. Bu as only he dia- ch onic pe spec i e o e s an explana ion – and explana ions a e wha we a e looking o – his class should be e be disca ded. All membe s o ha class a e ei he simple su ixal de i a i es o plu al- o ms o he base-wo d ( hus ze o-de i a i es [o plu al- o ms]). 2.5.2. Ano he p oblema ic case – as a as e minology is conce ned – a e he so-called ‘p e ix-de i a i es’, Ge m. P ä ixablei ungen, Li h. p iešdėlių ed- iniai. In his case we also go o do wi h a piece o e minology, which seems unp oblema ic om a synch onic pe spec i e, bu should be disca ded om a his o ic, ha is explana o y pe spec i e. Al hough some o hese o ma ions only show he addi ion o a p e ix a he beginning o he basic wo d, he by a bigge numbe o o ma ions show also a change o s em class a he end o he wo d. 2.5.2.1. In bo h cases we should be mo e p ecise: I only a p e ix is added, his is o mally no a p ocess o de i a ion, bu one o composi ion. Bu i addi- ionally o he addi ion o a p e ix also he s em-class is al e ed, we see he e ac ually a p ocess o ci cum iga ion. The as majo i y o hose o ma ions hus shows a de i a ional p ocess well known om he Ge manic languages – among which Ge man i sel – and om he Sla ic languages: The co e o ma ions we e collec i es, bu o cou se he seman ics would widen wi h ime, so i seems ha in Li huanian hese de i a i e p ocesses show a ce ain accumula ion in se e al ypes o onyms. 2.5.2.2. Fo ma ions like he meadow-names and ield-names Pa-lazdynė ← li h. lazdýnas, Pa-salai ys ← li h. salai ė (salà), Pa-sals ← li h. salà show in he end – on a P o o-Bal ic o a leas P o o-Li huanian le el – he same de i a- ional s uc u e as hei Ge manic and Sla ic coun e pa s: PLi h. *Pa-lazdīn-iiā ← PLi h. *lazdīn-a- ‘hazel’, 13 C . Li EW 108; Sa ukynas 1962: 197; Sa ukynas/ Vanagas/Vi kauskas/Vosyly ė/E many ė 1963: 35; Vanagas 1970: 11, 65, 148; Vanagas 1981a: 96; Vanagas 1981b: 65; ALEW 243; LVŽ 2: 386–388. 14 C . Li EW 761; Sa ukynas/ Vanagas/Vi kauskas/Vosyly ė/E many ė 1963: 142; Vanagas 1970: 69, 220; Vanagas 1981a: 289; Vanagas 1981b: 93. 15 C . Sa ukynas/ Vanagas/Vi kauskas/Vosyly ė/E many ė 1963: 108; no egis e ed in Vanagas 1970; c . Vanagas 1981a: 226. S aipsniai / A icles 125 The Mo phology o Li huanian Toponyms – Di e ences and Pa allels o Di e en Classes o Names *Pa-sal-ia- ← PLi h. *salā- ‘island, d y pa ch in a swamp’ a e comple ely pa allel o NHG Be g m. ‘moun ain’ → Gebi ge n. ‘ he moun ains, moun ain- ange’ (PGe m. *ƀe ǥ-a- → *ǥa-ƀe ǥ-ia) o o Se b.-C oa . Dȕna m. ‘Danube’ → Pȍdunā lje n. ‘a ea along he Danube’, Czech břeh m. ‘ i e -side, bank’ → po-břež-í n. ‘a ea along he i e -side’, ná-břež-í n. ‘p omenade along a i e -bank’ (< CSla . *be gъ : *po-/na-be g-ьje < PSla . *be g-a- : *pa/nā-be g-ia-). 2.6. Le ’s come o he compound names. They pose less p oblems and show s uc u ally clea -cu subdi isions. The second compound membe is (wi h ew excep ions, whe e we ind an adjec i e) a noun, mos ly one designa ing a body o wa e like Li h. ẽže as m. ‘lake’, dimin. eže ėlis m., p ūdas m. ‘pond’, ùpė . ‘ i e ’ e c. The i s compound membe can ei he be an onym o an appella- i e; i i is an appella i e, i can ac ually be a noun – which is he mos equen case – o an adjec i e o a ely e en a e b(al oo ). No mally he second com- pound membe shows a change o he s em-class espec i ely o he s em- owel (which younge laye s o compounds do no ). And his synch onic change o he s em-class is usually b ough abou by a his o ic su ix change, usually by a su ix wi h yod – he same kind o yod desc ibed abo e in 2.5.1.1. Thus heo e ically we ind a leas he ollowing ypes: A) appella i al i s compound membe : Aa) noun + noun: Pelialapūkas16 m. (?) Ve (42896): Li h. pelė . ‘mouse’ o Li h. pẽlūs m. Pl. ‘cha ’17 + Li h. lapūkas m. ‘col s oo (Tussilago), ma sh ma igold (Cal ha palus is), wa e lily (Nymphaea alba), lea e (o cabbage el sim.)’.18 Ab) noun + noun + change o s em-class: Vilkeže is m. (1) Lp, Ve (42877): Li h. ilkas ‘wol ’ and ẽže as ‘lake’.19 Ac) adjec i e + noun: Š en upė20 . (?) Te (130781): Li h. š e as ‘holy’ and ùpė . ‘ i e ’.21 16 Name unaccen ed in he da abase. 17 Vgl. Li EW 565 .,568 .; ALEW 751 ., 754 . 18 No egis e ed in Vanagas 1970; no egis e ed in Vanagas 1981a. 19 C . Li EW 125, 1251 .; Vanagas 1970: 231; Vanagas 1981a: 384; Vanagas 1981b: 40, 42, 82; ALEW 271, 1243 . 20 Name unaccen ed in he da abase. 21 C . Li EW 1041 ., 1169; Vanagas 1970: 247; Vanagas 1981a: 337 .; Vanagas 1981b: 111; ALEW 1060–1062, 1155 . HARALD BICHLMEIER 132 Ac a Linguis ica Li huanica LXXXII 3.2.1. The lake-name Li h. A ess (3b) can be aced back o a p e- o m PBal . *a -es-(i)ia-. Acco ding o gene al hinking he name is pa o wide Eu opean con ex s and is o en compa ed o he name o he Sou h Ty olian i e -name E sch, which is a es ed in an iqui y as A (h)esis. Whe he A (h)esis goes back o *a -es-io-, which would co espond o he Li huanian o m, o *a -es-i- we canno ell. The wo names a e gene ally said o de i e om a oo PIE *h2e (h2)- ‘go, wande ’.38 We see he e mos p obably a de i a i e om an s-s em PIE *h2e (h2)-es- ‘wande ing, going’. Bu seman ics emain a p oblem: A ess is a lake-name – and wande ing a ound, i.e. mo ing ahead in one di ec ion is no eally, wha lakes end o do. Thus we come o he esul , ha maybe he equa ion A ess : A (h)esis/E sch ound in onomas ic li e a u e since Hans K ahe and Wol gang P. Schmid migh be no comple ely co ec . Some imes al eady W. P. Schmid men ions also A esė besides A esys as does G eule quo ing Schmid (c . DGNB 135), bu hey a e subsumed unde one heading as ‘Gewässe namen’ (hyd onyms) and a e no di e en ia ed as a lake-name and a i e -name. I we do no wan o hink ha he Alpine and he Li huanian names a e independen , bu pa allel o ma ions, we mus look o a connec ion – bu i is di e en om wha has been assumed so a . A u he connec ion is hough o exis wi h Th ac. (*)a (-u)-, supposedly meaning ‘s eam, o en ’.39 Bu Th acian as a ‘T ümme sp ache’, abou which we do no know ha dly any hing, is a bad candida e o p o e any hing a all. Toge he wi h La . annus ‘yea ’ < PIE *h2e (h2)-no- (c . EDLIL 43 .) and maybe Th acian *a (u)- he Li huanian hyd onym migh poin o a g oup o wo ds showing su ixes om he so-called Caland-Wacke nagel-su ix-sys em (on ha c . Bichlmeie 2014 wi h u he li e a u e). 3.2.2. I his e ymology is co ec , hen om he iew-poin o seman ics, i seems mo e p obable ha he lake-name A ess is a seconda y de i a i e om he i e -name Li h. A esė < PBal . *a -es-iiā-. Tha a i e -name is based on a wo d meaning ‘wande e ’ o ‘wande ing’ is a a he i ial a ai , hough we would s ill ha e o explain, how his ending-de i a i e eally came in o being, and why he e he eminine o m seems o be he p ima y one – as usually i is he o he way a ound. 3.2.3. In Li huania he e a e a ew o he hyd onyms which ha e he same su ix-combina ion a he end – and do no ha e any connec ions wi h o ma- ions ou side o Li huania. The e a e o example Li h. Egless (Li h. ẽglė . ‘ i ’), 38 C . LIV² 273; IEW 69. 39 C . Du idano 1969: 90. S aipsniai / A icles 133 The Mo phology o Li huanian Toponyms – Di e ences and Pa allels o Di e en Classes o Names Žaless (Li h. žãlias ‘g een’) e c.40 Bu we ha e he p oblem ha he e is no way o make up an inne -Li huanian connec ion o he elemen a -. On he o he hand, hyd onyms wi h he su ixal elemen -es- a e mainly known om Eas e n Li huania.41 3.2.4. So in he end we ha e o say: The connec ion be ween A ess and A hesis ‘E sch’ does exis mos p obably, bu i is no a di ec one, as A ess is a lake-name. The p ima y connec ion is wi h Li h. A esė < PBal . *a -es-iiā- which migh be an inne -Bal ic es uc u ing o an olde *a -es-i-, which migh also be p ese ed in A hesis/E sch. 4. CONCLUSIONS Wha can we lea n om all ha which has been p esen ed he e? Mainly h ee hings: 1. The analysis and explana ion o names is always a diach onic a ai , syn- ch onic linguis ics ha dly e e explains any hing. 2. I is wo h while o look close a he seman ics and s uc u e o subg oups o names which ha e so a been o en ea ed oge he : The compa a i e anal- ysis o he wo subg oups o hyd onyms, he po amonyms and limnonyms o he Dzūkija- egion showed signi ican di e ences in he pe cen age o he ypes o name- o ma ion ound. Fu he esea ch conce ning he es o Li huania is needed o ind ou , whe he his is a no mal ea u e all o e Li huania o some- hing special. Mo e esea ch in ha ein migh be done: compa ing amongs he mic o oponyms he ag onyms wi h he leimononyms migh also b ing nice esul s. 3. I is always wo h he wo k and o en e en necessa y o check, whe he old e ymologies a e s ill alid. The olde he e ymologies a e, he mo e so. ABBREVIATIONS Al – Aly aus seniūnija C oa . – C oa ian CSla . – Common Sla ic dimin. – diminu i e Ge m. – Ge man Ka – Kapčiamies is (Rayon Lazdijai) 40 C . Vanagas 1970: 137 .; Vanagas 1981a: 99, 397; Vanagas 1981b: 91. 41 C . Ska džius 1943/1996: 311–313; Vanagas 1970: 136–138. 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Lie u ių oponimijos mo ologija – į ai ių a dų g upių ski umai i pa alelės SANTRAUKA S aipsnio p adžioje k i iškai analizuojama i ikslinama lie u iškų žodžių i ik inių a dų da ybos e minija, pa yzdžiui, galūniniai ediniai ‘Endungsablei ung’, p iešdėliniai ediniai ‘P ä ixablei ung’ i kon e sija ‘Kon e sion’. An ojoje dalyje a liekama pie aka- ių aukš aičių (dzūkų) upių i eže ų a dų lyginamoji analizė, iš ku ios aiškėja, kad abiejų HARALD BICHLMEIER 138 Ac a Linguis ica Li huanica LXXXII anden a džių g upių da ybai būdingi ie pa ys da ybos būdai, ik jų dažnumas kiek ienoje g upėje gana s ip iai ski iasi. S ambiau klasi ikuojan edinius pas ebima a pa i sin aksi- nių edinių i dū inių hie a chija – eže ų a dų, kaip edinių, žymiai daugiau, o dū inių a i kščiai – p opo cingai mažiau negu upė a džių. Mėginan de aliau klasi ikuo i da ybos p incipus, gaunami į ai esni ezul a ai. T ečiojoje s aipsnio dalyje pa eikiamas upė a džio Nẽmunas i eže ų A ess bei A esė pa ikslin as e imologinis aiškinimas i susiję komen a ai. Į eik a 2020 m. ko o 6 d. HARALD BICHLMEIER Ma in-Lu he -Uni e si ä Halle-Wi enbe g O ien alisches Ins i u Semina ü Indoge manis ik und Allgemeine Sp achwissenscha Ludwig-Wuche e -S . 2 D-06099 Halle (Saale) ha ald.bichlmeie @indoge m.uni-halle.de Sächsische Akademie de Wissenscha en zu Leipzig A bei ss elle Jena: E ymologisches Wö e buch des Al hochdeu schen Zwä zengasse 12a D-07743 Jena ha ald.bic[email p o ec ed]