- Tytuł:
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Węgra — dawny hydronim jaćwięski
WĘGRA — A FORMER YATVINGIAN HYDRONYM - Autorzy:
- WITCZAK, KRZYSZTOF TOMASZ
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/597891.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2015-12-01
- Wydawca:
- Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- Tematy:
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Jaćwięgowie
język jaćwięski
onomastyka jaćwięska
hydronimia bałtycka
słownik polsko-jaćwięski
depalatalizacja sonantów miękkich
Yatvingians
Yatvingian language
Yatvingian onomastics
Baltic hydronymy
Polish-Yatvingian dictionary
depalatalization of palatal resonants - Opis:
- The article deals with a Baltic etymology of the river name and place name Węgra, earlier Wągra (Northern Mazovia). It is suggested that the hydronym in question derives from Yatvingian *Wungrā and Baltic *Wingrā f. ‛winding, tortuous, crooked [river]’. Yatvingian is the only Baltic language showing the depalatalization of palatalized syllabic resonants at an early period. Three examples of such an exclusive phonological process are carefully reviewed. Two glosses exemplifying the sound change are found in the so-called Polish-Yatvingian dictionary (PYD ), also known as Zinov’s dictionary: Yatv. wułkʃ ‛wolf’ (PYD 25) < Balt. *wilkas, cf. Lithuanian vilkas, Latvian vìlks, OPrus. wilkis ‛id.’; Yatv. wułd ‛to want’ (PYD 3) < Balt. *wiltēi, cf. Lith. vìltis ‛to hope’, Latv. vilt ‛to cheat, swindle, delude’. The third instance, Yatv. wurszajtis ‛an aged priest offering a goat’ (cf. Lith. viršáitis ‛village-mayor, village-chief, elder in a village’, Latv. virsaitis ‛village-mayor’), is mentioned in the 16th century AD in Jan and Hieronim Malecki’s testimony on the Sudovians (i.e. Y atvingians) inhabiting the Sambia Peninsula.271-
- Źródło:
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Onomastica; 2015, 59; 271-279
0078-4648 - Pojawia się w:
- Onomastica
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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