Apie dar viena senosios baltiškos leksikos šaltini
On One More Source of the Old Baltic Vocabulary

Summary/Abstract: Within the framework on project of the common-Baltic dictionary in the University of Klaip˙eda the present author has made an eort to look for the new sources of Baltic vocabulary.The studies by V.Toporov, J. Otkupshchikov, R. Ageeva and V. Sedov show that in the collection of common Baltic vocabulary can be included the lexical Baltisms, Slavic hydronyms and place names of Baltic origin which have cognates in at least one living Baltic language. For example, the Proto-Baltic character of Lith. alka and Latv. elka show the Prussian place names and river name Alkin in the Oka river basin in Russia. The hydronym Kal~ná cf. Lith. kálnas, Latv. kalns also may be the relict of the Balts who lived in the Oka river basin. On the other hand, Baltic words, which have equivalents only in same East Slavic languages, can be also interpreted in the context of Slavic invasion into the Baltic territory, cf. Lith. loma ‘a depression in a field, valley, pit’ and Rus. dial. (Pskov, Tver and elsewhere) lámy, lam´y ‘a meadow grown over with stunted forest, bushes sometimes flooded’, lom ‘swamp’, lom´y ‘a meadow with floods’.

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