Recenzija. Ramutė Dabrytė, Rūta Sakalauskaitė, Dalia Pakalniškienė (sud.). 2014. Rinkis vardą lietuvišką: lietuviškų vardų žodynėlis. Vilnius: Versus aureus, 336 p.
Review of the dictionary "Rinkis vardą lietuvišką: lietuviškų vardų žodynėlis" compiled by Ramutė Dabrytė, Rūta Sakalauskaitė and Dalia Pakalniškienė. 2014. Vilnius: Versus aureus, 336 p.

Summary/Abstract: This review deals with the 2014 dictionary of proper names "Rinkis vardą lietuvišką". Its authors took the names included in the dictionary from two different sources (Lietuvių vardų kilmės žodynas, by Kazimieras Kuzavinis and Bronys Savukynas, and Lietuvių asmenvardžiai, by Zigmas Zinkevičius) without properly sifting the evidence. As a result, a number of names of questionable origin made it into the dictionary in spite of the fact that they were not traditionally used and do not in reality correspond to the scope of this dictionary. The principles applied when collecting the names are not specified either. As a result, women proper names, hypochoristics, or name variants are presented in rather dissimilar ways. The same holds true for the remarks on the origin of the names and for their cognates in other Baltic languages. Is spite of its serious deficiencies, the main value of this dictionary probably lies in its patriotic purpose to popularize proper names of Lithuanian origin.

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