Pirmojo lietuviško aukštosios mokyklos fizikos vadovėlio terminija
The terminology of the first Lithuanian physics textbooks for higher schools

Summary/Abstract: “Fizikos paskaitos” (Lectures of Physics) by V. Čepinskis was the only and the main physics textbook for higher schools, which was used by the whole generation of students of various specialities, apart of brief synopses of various courses, i.e. the hectographed course of thermodynamics by K. Šliūpas, the synopsis of I. Končius’ lectures of physics and P. Brazdžiūnas notes of thermodynamics printed using rotary press.The terminology of “Fizikos paskaitos” consists of general terms, terms of physics, some terms of mechanics and other spheres of science related to physics: these are terminologized ordinary Lithuanian words and derivations. The most frequent derivations and compound words are with the suffixes -imas/-ymas, -umas, -inys, -iklis, -tuvas, -ėjas, -tojas and with the endings -a, -is.The majority of borrowings are international Latin or Greek terms. Some of them have a different, unusual phonetic or morphological form. A few barbarisms, which came in different ways (economic, cultural, and political) from neighbouring languages are found.Binomial and three-component composite terms, which can be subdivided into certain families of words according to the main component, make up the majority of terms in the textbook “Fizikos paskaitos”. The families of composite terms, where the main words are terms like energija, greitumas, jėga, koeficientas, kūnas, momentas, srovė, vienetas are the largest.A fair amount of one-word and composite terms is still in use in terminology of physics. Thus, it can be stated that in the first decades of the 20th century a certain part of the terminology of physics was rather well established. On the other hand, numerous synonymy and variability of one-word and composite terms show that some concepts did not have established terms. The terminology of such concepts was still developing.

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