Dithematic name
A dithematic name is a single-word given name consisting of two compounded lexemes or stems. They are commonly dated from pre-Christian times among Indo-Europeans,[1][2][3] in particular, Lithuanians,[4][5][6] Germanic, and Slavic peoples.[7][8][9]
Single-lexeme names or monothematic names are names based on a single lexeme/stem.
Polish linguist Zofia Kaleta asserts that many Old Germanic and Old Slavic dithematic given names reflected wishes for newborns.[7]
Since dithematic names are often long, they became truncated, first as diminutives, which had later become regular given names of their own.[10] Czech examples: Rostislav – Rost; Svatopluk – Pluk; Radomír – Radim; Sbyslav – Sbych; Sdeslav – Sdeš, Sdenĕk (Zdeněk); Dobromil – Došek; Přemysl – Přek; Budihost – Buň.[11]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Zofia Kaleta, WHAT CAN THE ANCIENT INDO-EUROPEAN COMPOUND NAMES REVEAL ABOUT THE SPIRITUAL CULTURE OF OUR ANCESTORS?, FOLIA ONOMASTICA CROATICA 12–13 (2003–2004), pp. 249-257
- ↑ KALETA Z. 1994–95, Human values as reflected in Indo-European compound first names. Onoma 32. Leuven, pp.83–94
- ↑ Albris, Sofie Laurine (2020). "Animal art and personal names in Iron Age Scandinavia: Different media – corresponding cultural codes?" (PDF). Onoma. 55: 77–97 (pp 80–81). doi:10.34158/ONOMA.55/2020/5.
- ↑ K. A. GIRVILAS, PRE-CHRISTIAN NAME GIVING IN LITHUANIA, Lituanus,Volume 24, No.3 - Fall 1978
- ↑ Antanas Pakerys, Dvikamienių lietuvių vyrų vardų kirčiavimas: pirmųjų dėmenų tvirtapradė priegaidė [ACCENTUATION OF LITHUANIAN COMPOUND MALE NAMES: THE ACUTE OF THE FIRST COMPONENT], doi:10.15388/baltistica.44.2.1312 (somewhat different version)
- ↑ Antanas Pakerys, Dvikamienių lietuvių moterų vardų kirčiavimas [Accentuation of Lithuanian dithematic feminine given names]
- 1 2 Willy van Langendonck, Theory and Typology of Proper Names. Walter de Gruyter. 2007. pp. 83–. ISBN 978-3-11-019086-1.
- ↑ Maria Malec, Budowa morfologiczna staropolskich złożonych imion osobowych (The morphological structure of the Old Polish compound names). Wrocław, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, 1971.
- ↑ Halszka Górny, SŁOWIAŃSKIE IMIONA DWUCZŁONOWE ZACHOWANE W NAJSTARSZYCH POLSKICH TOPONIMACH (REKONESANS), Onomastica LXI/1, 2017, pp. 255-264,doi:10.17651/ONOMAST.61.1.16
- ↑ Maria Malec, Staropolskie skrócone nazwy osobowe od imion dwuczłonowych, 1982 (in digital library
- ↑ Jména a tradice v českých a německy mluvících zemích
Further reading
[edit]- Silvo Torkar, (2013). Dvočlenski slovanski antroponimi v slovenski toponimiji. Jezikoslovni zapiski XIX, s. 111–128, http://www.dlib.si/details/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-RVDPZUCD
- Сулямова Рузанна Мухтасымовна , Этимологический анализ антропонимов сибирских татар в XIX В. (на примере юрт Араповских Тобольской губернии
- Discusses dithematic Siberian Tatar names (among other types)