Lietuvos vardo kilmės aiškinimas XVI–XVII amžiaus raštuose
Explanations of the Name Lithuania in the Writings of the 16th and 17th centuries
Author(s): Eugenija UlčinaitėSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Lietuvių Kalbos Institutas
Keywords: name of Lithuania; Annales Quedlinburgenses; Lituae; Letthowie; Lettonia; Litwania; Piccolomini; Dlugosius; Latin tradition; etymology; sound change; Explanations; Writings of the 16th and 17th centuries; Matheas de Miechow; Lithuanos; Kojelavičius
Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the Latin tradition of the name Lithuania since its first attestation in the Annales Quedlinburgenses (1009): Lituae, Letthowie, Lettonia, Litwania etc. The discussion is based on the 16th–17th century “theories” according to which the name of Lithuania was said to be derived from such Latin words as litus ‘sea-shore, bank’, lituus ‘horn, bugle’ or as the result of a sound change Italia>l’Italia>Lituania. In the spelling Lithuania (the letters <th> instead of <t>) the influence of the Greek orthography is also observed.
Journal: Archivum Lithuanicum
- Issue Year: 2000
- Issue No: 02
- Page Range: 51-60
- Page Count: 10
- Language: Lithuanian
