Sudėtinių Marijampolės apskrities helonimų motyvacija
Motivation of Composite Helonyms of Marijampolė County

Summary/Abstract: The article is a continuity of the previous research of Lithuanian areal toponymy. It investigates the motivation of composite helonyms from a single administrative unit – interwar Marijampolė County – recorded in the “Land Names” questionnaires. The research reflects the efforts to record the names of the small hydroobjects which are about to get extinct (or which have already fallen into oblivion) and to reveal their gnoseological potential based on other data from the interwar questionnaires which are also worthy of preservation. To achieve as reliable interpretation of the motivation of hydronyms as possible, the article refers to the data of the interwar questionnaires recording the factors of nomination and the outcomes of the communicative activity of linguistic community members which were useful in clarifying the actually represented content of hydronyms and pseudomotivation.

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