Lithuanian personal names originating from compound names and their spelling peculiarities in the 1661-1795 list of Vilnius's new citizens and warrantors Cover Image

Lietuvių dvikamienių vardų kilmės asmenvardžiai ir jų kamienų užrašymo ypatybės Vilniaus naujųjų miestiečių ir laiduotojų 1661–1795 metų sąraše
Lithuanian personal names originating from compound names and their spelling peculiarities in the 1661-1795 list of Vilnius's new citizens and warrantors

Author(s): Daiva Sinkevičiūtė, Veslava Račickaja
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Baltic Languages, 17th Century, 18th Century
Published by: Lietuvių Kalbos Institutas
Keywords: Lithuanian names; 17th-18th century; Warrantors;

Summary/Abstract: The researched corpus of personal names originating from compound names makes it obvious that part of them were inherited names of the city of Vilnius and its environs. Some of them (Eigėla, Iešmantas, Loškantas, Milbutas, Milvydas, Kybartas, Sybutas, Svirbutas, Uogintas, Vaišnoras, and Žadvainas) were found in the register of warrantors and people from Vilnius environs. Loškantas, Sybutas, Uogintas, and Žadvainas are known only from the studied source. Other names were found among warrantors and people from other localities that had become new citizens: Daugėla, Daugirdas, Jogėla, Karbutas, Norbutas, and Skirgaila. The names Ašvila, Beinoras, Byvainas, Daubaras, Daugaila, Dauginas, Daujotas, Dovaidas, Eiminas, Eismantas, Gelvainas, Kantautas, Kilbaras, Mantautas, Ringaila, Saurimas, Sambaras, Seibutas, Vilbutas, and Vilmantas, known from the register of newcomers, also were inherited names, since they were inscribed in the inventory of compound names used in the region of Vilnius during the seventeenth century. The list of compound name stems of 1661–1795 along with Zigmas Zinkevičius’s discoveries of the compound name stems in Vilnius at the beginning of the seventeenth century make it obvious that the stems aš-, bar-, bart-, bei-, by-, but-, dau-, do-, ei-, eis-, gail-, gel-, gėl-, gin-, gird-, ieš-, jo-, jot-, kan-, kant-, kar-, ky-, kil-, man-, mant-, mil-, min-, mint-, nor-, rim-, rin-, sau-, sei-, skir-, sam-, sur-, svir-, taut-, vaid-, vain-, vai -, vyd-, vie -, and vil- are inherited names from Vilnius and its environs. The names of warrantors found in the 1661–1795 list allow us to supplement the Vilnius region stem list with the stems gint-, lo -, sy-, uo-, and žad-. The derivational structure of recurring names remained stable for the same individuals, i.e. a person was always inscribed with the same suffix or without it, no matter how often the name was repeated. The structure of the second component of most compound names was also steady: some of them lacked a suffix, whereas others were mostly used with the unchanged patronymic suffixes.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 16
  • Page Range: 295-322
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Lithuanian