Upių vardai „Neris“ ir „Vilija“

LITHUANIAN LINGUISTICAL QUESTIONS, XXXII (1993) STUDIES OF BALTIC ONOMASTICS ALEKSANDRAS VANAGAS RIVER NAME NERIS AND VILIJA The largest tributary of the Nemunas is a bit of a binomial — in Lithuanian it is called Nerimi, and in some other languages, especially Polish — Vilija. | —A lot has been written about these two names of the same river. The first jy, Neris, does not raise any greater doubts, and the second, Vilija, is still the subject of consideration. Therefore, it is worthwhile to discuss them both in more detail and to draw a conclusion about their relationship. ' Neris. Before explaining the origin of the name, it should be said that the Lithuanians used to call the entire river with this name — from the upper part of the river to the mouth. This is shown by living language and historical sources. There is no doubt that the Lithuanians from Vilnius to the mouth of the river called it only Neris: this is how it is still called almost everywhere today. Only a small section of it west of Vilnius is now called Vilija by the locals. But this tradition of living language cannot be old—it arose from the Slavification of most of the native population. And earlier and local people known only the sex Nerts. This is clearly evidenced, for example, by the early 19th century historian M. Balinskis in his work “The History of the City of Vilnius”. Jis rašo: "What is more, until now Lithuanians, who have lived on the banks of this river, below Vilnius, call it Niaris" (1:7). It is from the name Neris that the place names Paneriai (Aukštieji and Zemieji) — part of Vilnius m. Paneriai -k. Kaišiadorių r.; Paneriai -k. Trakai r. Some ‘you are very old. For example, Vilnius Paneriai is mentioned as early as 1390: willam nostram Ponary (2: 31). A slightly different situation developed east of Vilnius — the river is called Vilija or Vilja by the local inhabitants, currently almost all non-Lithuanian. But not the entire upper Neris, but only a certain section. Further upstream the situation is differentiated —non-Lithuanians use the name Vilija (more precisely —Velja, Vialia —see below), and Lithuanians, especially from the Gervėčiai area — mostly Neris (3: 5), Although already before the war A. Salys from Gervėčiai has written the gender Veljė, -ds, Veljg. The name Neris is used in the local names Towapu (village on the Neris in Belarus, Kiemeliškių valsčius) — recorded in 1873 (4: 6), 1874 (5: i: Ponarce k. Varnioniy dekante, near the town of Svyruonéliy (Swiranki) (6: 530), Ponary dv. —deanery of Nadwilę, m. Holubicze —dabar brus, Taayčium, Iamboyxasa p-wa (6: 495). Therefore, it is undoubted that the name Nerids was known to the inhabitants of the river upstream, Thus, the name Vilija is as if secondary, given to a certain section of the river, as we will see, in a very peculiar way, And the whole river from. anciently called Nerimi, The antiquity of the name, among other things, mentions in historical sources Western tradition knows only the sex 230 rodo ir jo — Neris : Nerge 1340 m. (7 : 1539), Nerga 1361 m. (7: II 531), Nerye 1377 m. (7 : III 106), Nerye 1391 m. (7 : III 154), Nerye 1404 m. (7 : III 272) ir t.t. Vigandas Marburgietis 1390 m. wrote: Pons fit trans Nergam (7 : II 643). There is no doubt about the origin of the name. Perhaps the first more detailed explanation The origin of Neriés M. Balinskis connected the jį su verb nėrti atseit — "panerta" river (1 : 6). Later researchers have found equivalents in Latin. (Drowned), Russian (Nereta), in other Indo-European languages, but the connection lit. su animated "abruptly jump, descend į the water; squeezing; swim in po water" no one denied. Only the semantics is somewhat clarified, in the belief that it could not have a more general flowing pan. ar original value (8 : 228). Willie. Having established the fact that the river along its entire length Lithuanian (Baltic) was called Nerimi, it is necessary to find out where, in iš what way another name appeared Willie. Since there are different jo opinions on this, it is useful to present more important historiographir ical material. How ir Neriés, yes ir Will's name In the a. early nineteenth century the first in more detail tried to explain the same historian M. Balinski. Be otherwise, he believed to be able to link ma ir su let. willidium (he writes: Wiloju ludzę) or wilius su — Wilius treason : a wtedy Will means he will betray, i.e. "seduced, deceived" (1: 6—7). 1913 m. Article 1 "Can one Celtic traces on Baltic Proof of territory?" K. Būga name Vilija held Baltic border ir jį su let. wieldti "wrap": iš ide. *yei-la (9 : I 519). Later, when it became clear that the river Velja, Vilija exists even į south of Pripetė (e. g. : Beass — Sniežatės int., Buaus — Teterevo int., Bucharest — Gorinios int., Buaus — Slugés int.), Buga K. revoked his previous opinion and considered them Slavic ir (9 : III 503—504). Prie Many other ir linguists have stopped by Villa. For example, T. Lehr-Splawinski. Vilija is a — Belarusian name (10 : 64), J. It is a — Baltic-speaking country, which is su connected to Lithuania. wave ir pan. (11: 172—175), M. Vasmeriui — sen. Russian. * Benba allegedly originated iš from the previous sex *Boasa (16 : I 315), V. Toporovui ir O. Trubachev — a difficult case, because these hydronyms are found į south of They are ir characterized by a change of vocalism: *Beass — Buaus (12 : 179). In the 34th volume of "Lietuvių enciklopedija" (Boston, 1966) a comprehensive A. Sali's article about The name of the city Vilnius. This article explains the origin of the name of the river. A. Salys has sufficiently substantiated that Willia is a late river name the gender of the former was — All right, ir sir. O the latter being Slavism, iš sen. Slavic velija "large" (13 : II 173—178). Despite the well-founded (though perhaps not sufficiently detailed) opinion of A. Salis, the carousel continued to spin. In 1968 O. Trubachev called the river names Buaus Belarusian (14: 284), in the same year J. Nalepa — Baltic (15: 82), in 1974 V. Žučkevičius pointed out that the local inhabitants Belarusians call Vilia Beass, Baaas and, like A. Salys (obviously not knowing anything about this author), derived the name of the river sl. iš eeavs "large" (21 : 51). . Almost at the same time, V. Ivanov and V. Toporov assigned Vilija to the place names of demonological origin, linking it with Veliuona, Vėlnežeris, lietuv. vėlė, vėlnias, etc. (17: 177; 18: 125). In a detailed study of Vilnius name 231. V. Toporov later again tried to justify this hypothesis (37: 57). However, there remained doubts, and the discussions continued. The author of these lines also tried to explain the origin of the name quite broadly. After finding that Lithuania is full of hydronyms and other place names with the root vil (among others, there are two other rivers of the same name: Vilija Plungė and Vilija Butrimonys), it turned out that it was possible to consider Vilija a member of the family of toponyms with the root vil (8: 382—383). This opinion was recently supported by M. Razmukaitė (19:33). Some time later, I had to return to the theme of Will, but with the view that is defended in this article (20:4-5). The most important researches on the name of the river Vilija are mentioned here, but even from them it is clear that the problem remains unsolved. This happened for many reasons, of which two—three more prominent are distinguishable. Firstly, the researchers of different countries and periods worked too isolatedly, so, for example, some opinions, especially those of A. Sali, remained almost without echo and influence. Secondly, some linguists (including the author of these lines) were not impartial and showed a certain subjectivity, trying fatally to instill the idea of the Baltic origin of Vilia. Thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, the material of the historical sources was not properly supported. And it is extremely important in this case: So what do Willa’s notes show about the past? As mentioned, the Western scriptures have used the gender Mary since the earliest times. And the chronicles written in East Slavic languages (or their mixture) also know the gender Velja or so from the earliest times. It is mentioned for the first time in the chronicle of Ipatius in 1232 (so much earlier than Neris!): Benba (9: III 503; 13: II 178). In the second half of the 14th century:... U YDICE 837A bo Jlumoacxoil semau no Beauw pexy... (21:51). Especially clearly this can be seen from the volume XVII of the yearbook "Polnoje sobranije russkich letopisej", which, as is known, contains all the most important yearbooks relating to Lithuania (22)! : Supraslio (hereinafter Supr.), Uvarovo (Uvar.), Akademinis (Akad.), Krasinskio pirma dalis (Kras. I), Vilniaus (V.), Litovskomu rodu počinok (LRP), Origo regis Iaguelo et Wytholdi ducum Lithuaniae (Origo), Krasinskio antra dalis (Kras. II), Archeologų draugijos (Arch.), Račinskio (Rač.), Jevreinovo (Jevr.), Rodoslovije velikich kniazej Litovskogo kniažestva (Rodosl.), Pochvala Vitovta (Pochv.), Olševo (Olš.), Bychovco (Bych.) and so-called appendices. They were written in the 15th-17th centuries (22: I-XIV; 23: 3-15; 24: 10-16; 25: 99-104). Her name is mentioned about 100 times. In Cyrillic texts —without exception only Velja or similar: semau no 3a Beauw; in 3a Beavcxom (Supr. 22: 63), in Beauw pexoy; na peye na Beau (ten pat, 79), no pexoy Beauw; na paid na Bearu (Uvar. 22: 92), no 3aseavckom semau, no 3aeeauw (ten pat, 106), no paid x Beasu; Ma Beapu (Akad. 22: 146), no Beavw; na peye na ] Republished by the USSR MA History Institute in 1980 (23). This article is based on an earlier publication, which preserved a more archaic writing. 232 Beabu (also, 150), x pay x Beau; na Beau (Kras, I 22 : 158—159), no Beavw; na Beau (also, 165), na Beasu (V. 22 : 196), no pexoy Beavw; na pay na Beasu (also, 200), x pay Beauu; wa Beauu (LRP 22 : 210), no pexy no Beauw; na pay na Beau (also, 216), 3a pexoy Beasw 6 seman 3aeeacxyo; 3a Beaew nut; pexy 3a Beaw (Kras. II : 229-231), na pexy Beauw e seman 3aseacxyw (Arch. 22 : 242), na Jaseacxou cmopone, andue mitu “mo 3a Beaew oceau (also, 243), sa pexy Bean (also, 244), na pexy Beaw e seman 3aseavcxyw; sa Beaew (Rac. 22 : 298), pexy Bean; a pexy Beaw (also, 306), xs pay Beavu (the same, 319), pexy Beasw; na pay na Beau (also, 324), na pexy Beauw e seman 3asescxyw; 3a pexy Beauwwo (Jevr. 22 : 361), pexy Beauw (ten pat, 368), paid x Beau; na Beau (also, 382), no pexy Beauw (also, 386) ir t.t. Similar situation in ir three annals written in Latin: rzeka Vielyą ziemie Zavielskie na (Olsh. 22 : 424), by river Vielyey; w Vielyg (ibid., 431), river Velya (ibid., 433), over the river Velya (ibid., 440), kv river Vielyey (also, 445), na rivers Viely (also, 450), za river Wellu; za Wellej (Bych. 22 : 476), za river Wellu (that same 478), one, I said Wellu (also, 487), za river Wellu (also, 493), po Wellu (ten pat, pereszed 511), Wellu; w cold Welli (also, 513), na cold Welli (ibid., 512). Exceptions two — ad flumen Vilia (Original 22 : 223) ir: cold k Willii (Bych. 22 : 504). But a po few lines again written na Welli (same). In other sources written in the East Slavic language, among jų In Lithuanian metrics, the picture is the same: sa Beaew 1493 m. (28 : 134), na Beasu 1516 m. (26 : 420), es Koene na Beavu 1554 m. (27 : 101), es Koene na Beaiu 1554 m. (also, 250), es Koasne na Beasu 1554 m. (that's right, 256), do... pexu Beau 1565 m. (also, nodaeto802), tha Beasu 1565 m. (the same, 803), Beass 1565 m. (ten pat), Beaew enuszs 1565 m. (also, 804), y Beavw 1565—1566 m. (also, 882), y Beasw, Beavew y-eepszs 1565—1566 m. (also, 883), y Beavw 1565—1566 m. (also, 885), do Beasu; Beavew fish; y Bean pexy 1565—1566 m. (also, Thus the 886). Eastern Slavic sources from ancient times use only Velia, Velja. There is no ra doubt that the root here is the original authentic. ir Ją friend su A. Saliu (13 : 178) can boldly raise sen. iš Slavic, sen. Russian, sen. brush. eeaull "large" (16 : I 288, 29 : III aeasas 82), "large" (21 : 51). So the name of the river Velia, Velja original meaning was "big, great." Thus, the first Eastern Slavs, acquainted with su Vilnius, will be named one of the two most iš important rivers of the city. One, little one — Vilnia (Neries kair. int.), which gave its name to the Lithuanian capital. — Secondly, the great this Velia, Velja "big, great." This is completely in line with reality — Vilnia "small" inlet į Velją (Neriu) "the great". This relationship of the two rivers to the mentioned (and other) East Slavic sources bugerai vo known: nodaetotha Beau 206 pexa Buans oy Beaw enadweaems (Kras. I 22 : 235), na oycmsutotha Buanu sde oy Bean snadweaem (the same), na oycmuxoru Buanu, sde oy Bean playdweaem; nodaetotha Beau © 20¢ pexa Quick playback oy Beaw (Arch. 22 : 251), nodaetotha Beau 20th Pig Fast Inkjet y Beaw (Rae. 22 : 305), nodaetotha Beavu // 20th Pig Buana e Beaw enadueaems (Jevr. 22 : 366), by river Vielyey 233 where the river Vilnius is falling w Velyg; Rivers Vilni where w Vielyg wpadiva (Olsh. 22 : 431), rzekg ... Very... nath rzekg Vilng mile w odvscya river Vielyey where wpadiva w river Variable preview Rakunciszek (that same 433), one, I said Well... over the river Vilnius w loves the od mouth of the river Vilnius where the river flows w Wellu (Bych. 22 : 487). In the sources, as we see, there are two similar genders of the same name —Beas i and Beass. They seem to reflect the East Slavic pronunciation, as modern Belarusians know both: Bssas and Beass (21:51). In turn, this doublet will probably be related to the corresponding variation of the adjective pls: sen. su — Russian. eeAuii ir avadu (30: TI 61). The fact that the Belarusian and now use genders with the devil are not new is shown by the placenames made from the name of the river. For example, the city name Vileika is often pronounced in Belarusian today. "Veleika (21:51)". And the name of the village in Astravo district is officially written only Jaeenvysw: (ibid., 127). Having established that the middle name of Neris Velia, Velja is Slavic, formed in Old Russian, Old Slavic language, we have to clarify when and how the variant Willie. Mr Salys has already pointed out that this is comparable. new sex, in his opinion, not older than XVI century (13: II 178). When the variant with a vilmentioned for the first time, now it is difficult to say. In the 1390 Jagiellonian privilege the Neris is called Vigilija: in fluvio Vigilija (1: 6). M. Balinskis says that some other authors of earlier times used the gender Vigilija, e.g. S. Sarnickis (ibid.). But this gender is probably only a kind of occasionalization, arising, among other things, from the religious term vigilia. Wigilia (modern Lithuanian vigilia) analogy. There may have been other reasons, for example, the name of the river Velia, Velja in the way of the so-called folk etymology connected with lit. ghosts, ghosts "dead spirits", late "dead honoring festivals". And the vigil is "the eve of Catholic holidays- ". The main variant with the vilšaltinis and the impulse to spread it, apparently, were the works of J. Dlugosz. This author derived the names of the rivers Vilija and Vilnia and the name of the city Vilnia (Vilnius) from the supposed name of the prince Vilius. Therefore, all these three place names are written by him with the same root vil-: "Item V 4 li a, cuis fons circa villam Kamyen... The village is situated in the valley of the river Oder, between the towns of Oder-Spree and Oder-Neiße. Item W y | n a, honore episcopali et arce editori praedita, duobus Auniinibis Wylnaet Vilia (37 : 11-12). Later, the tradition of J. Długosz is followed by other authors, e.g. the chronicler M. Stryjkowski: nad Wilig; to Wiliej; for the river Wilig (39: I 85), Wiliej rivers; on the river Wilig (this pat, 86), between the rivers Wakg and Wilig; where the river Wilna flows into Wiliej (this pat, 369), at the mouth of Wilna, where it flows into Wiliej at the castles over Wilng and Wiljg settled (this pat, 372) over Wiljg (also, 373) ir kt After the capital works of history by J. Długosz and M. Stryjkowski, which had (and still have) a huge influence on the development of historical science in Eastern Europe, Wilczyńska gained prominence primarily in Polish literature. Later, it is used in Polish colloquial language, penetrates into Lithuanian literature —in the 16th century it is already widely used in 234 common. Antai 1554 m. Nemenčinės of Vilnius Voivodeship ir Gender is consistently used in the Lingmen inventory written in Polish Valija (31 : 29—83): od Rivers Wiliey (31 : 32, 33, 34, 35, 36), Wilią (also, 43, 46, 76, 77, 78, 79). Plg. but: Vilia 1507 m. (32 : 25), do Wiliy 1668 m. (33 : 272), Rivers Wiliy 1686 m. (also, Wilia 351), 1784 m. (34), Willia 1798 m. (32 : 191) etc. Gender in Polish Willy helped defeat the previous variants velsu ir ta the fact that other du place names of three iš (very often used next to each other) had the root vil-: Vilnia river and Vilnia (Vilnius) city. . Therefore, Velja easily adapted to the tų two. However, even with the prevalence of the variant Vilija, the scribes of those days often, apparently, knew or at least felt that the river had another ir gender of the name or even another name. J. Sprogis wrote: Beavs u Beais (nome Buais) (35:42). Plg. gift 1854 m.: Will otherwise called Neris (36: 91). Anyway, the gender Vilja is now universally established — Polish. Willie, brush. That's funny. As is known, even ir Lithuanian ją authors often used — Maironis, S. Nerisir et al. It is this circumstance, apparently, that prevented some authors from believing that there is a later, ji secondary one. It's all right. K. Būga 1913 m. The name Velja is derived from the Old Russian Valsja (Lithuanian: Vilija) (9: I 526). Later, having already given up the idea of the Baltic origin of Vilnia, he mentioned the name of the Volhynia river in the chronicle of Hipatius in 1232. Bear also married iš * Valsja ir thought that the ši name was brought by the Slavs į It was named after the river Neris in Lithuania. That Waltz turned into Vilija on Lithuanian lips (ibid., III 503—504). Theoretically, it is possible to derive the gender of Ben from * Valsja, but in this case there is no basis for doing so. As we have seen, the East Slavic chronicles, other writings use only Beass or Beas. Even if there were entries * Bsass, ir then we could explain it by the variation of the adjective "big": eeauti esasu. But such writing is unknown to the author of this article. The idea of the allegedly possible origin of the root from the older Wilvisisch is denied by the names in the historical sources. In those cases where the original root of the name was vil-, it is reflected in the sources, and where it was velin the past, it is written as such. Our case is convenient in that the sources often mention the names of the rivers Vilnia, Velja and the name of the city Vilnia (Vilnius) next to each other. The roots vel-, vil are interchangeable: no Beauw pexoy —but Buano (Supr. 22: 79), no pexoy Beasw —but Buanu, Buavwwo (Uvar. 22: 92), no Beas —but Buanwo, Buanu (Akad. 22: 50), x peye x Beau —but Buanw, Buanu (Kras. 122: 158), na Beasu —but Buano, Buanu (V. 22 : 200), pexa Buans oy Bean enadveaems (Kras. II 22 : 235), no Beauw —bet Buane, Buanwo (LRP 22: 216), on oycmu petra Buanu, 2de oy Beaw oynadweaem (Arch. 22: 251), 20e pexa Buans ynadweaem a Bear (Rač. 22: 305), 20e pexa Buana e Bean enadseaems (Jevr. 22: 366), where the river Vilna flows into Velyg (Olš. 22: 431), behind the river Velyg; on the river Vilng; Vilnius (Olš. 22: 440), from the mouth of the river Vilnius where it flows into the river Velu (Bych. 22: 487) etc. Thus, the environment, the context of the river name Velja in the sources of use does not suggest that the root velčia is secondary, later. If it had been wil-, we would find it written as such (as Vilnia — river and city). 235- Without į delving into all this, only based on K. Boogie authority, sex Vilija kildino iš * Waltz J. Otrebski (11 : 173—174), o later — ir M. Vasmeris (16: I 315). In doing so, the premises were created for misinterpretation and The origin of the name of the city of Vilnius (see A. Salys 13: 177—178). Finally, one more detail. 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Description of forests Kingdoms Polish i Western Governorates of the Russian Empire... Warsaw, 1854. T. 2. 37. T it is» B.H. Vilnius, Vilnius, Bursa: ropon u mud// Banto-cnassanCKHe 3THOS3bIKOBbIe No, I don't. M. 1980. 38. Lietuvos The Lakes of the ir TSR. V., 1963. 39. Chronicle Poland, Lithuanian, Zmodzka all i Rusi Macieja Stryjkowski. Warsaw, Poland 1846. T. 1—2. NAMES OF THE RIVER NERIS AND VILIJA Summary The present article states that the in past Lithuanians would call the river full it’s length only at Neris. Nowadays, Vilija another name the of river, which used is in Polish and sometimes in Lithuanian is of Slavonic origin. Its earlier form, used the in East Slavonic languages, was & Select or Vellia (from the Old Russian adjective choose "great"). The historian J. Dlugos was the first change to the root from velvilto in Polish. 237-