Dithematic name

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A dithematic name is a single-word given name consisting of two lexemes or stems, to be distinguished from compound names, which consist of several separate words. They are commonly dated from pre-Christian times among Indo-Europeans, [1] [2] [3] in particular, Lithuanians, [4] [5] [6] Germanic, and Slavic peoples. [7] [8] [9]

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Single-lexeme names or monothematic names are names based on a single lexeme/stem.

Polish linguist Zofia Kaleta asserts that many Old Germanic and Old Slavic dithematic given names reflected wishes for newborns. [7]

Since dithematic names are often long, they became truncted, first as diminutives, which had later become regular given names of their own. [10] Czech examples: Rostislav – Rost; Svatopluk – Pluk; Radomír – Radim; Sbyslav – Sbych; Sdeslav – Sdeš, Sdenĕk (Zdeněk); Dobromil – Došek; Přemysl – Přek; Budihost – Buň. [11]

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  1. ↑ Zofia Kaleta, WHAT CAN THE ANCIENT INDO-EUROPEAN COMPOUND NAMES REVEAL ABOUT THE SPIRITUAL CULTURE OF OUR ANCESTORS?, FOLIA ONOMASTICA CROATICA 12–13 (2003–2004), pp. 249-257
  2. ↑ KALETA Z. 1994–95, Human values as reflected in Indo-European compound first names. Onoma 32. Leuven, pp.83–94
  3. ↑ Albris, Sofie Laurine (2020). "Animal art and personal names in Iron Age Scandinavia: Different media – corresponding cultural codes?" (PDF). Onoma. 55: 77–97 (pp 80–81). doi:10.34158/ONOMA.55/2020/5.
  4. ↑ K. A. GIRVILAS, PRE-CHRISTIAN NAME GIVING IN LITHUANIA, Lituanus ,Volume 24, No.3 - Fall 1978
  5. ↑ Antanas Pakerys, Dvikamienių lietuvių vyrų vardų kirčiavimas: pirmųjų dėmenų tvirtapradė priegaidė [ACCENTUATION OF LITHUANIAN COMPOUND MALE NAMES: THE ACUTE OF THE FIRST COMPONENT], doi : 10.15388/baltistica.44.2.1312 (somewhat different version)
  6. ↑ Antanas Pakerys, Dvikamienių lietuvių moterų vardų kirčiavimas [Accentuation of Lithuanian dithematic feminine given names]
  7. 1 2 Willy van Langendonck  [ nl ], Theory and Typology of Proper Names. Walter de Gruyter. 2007. pp. 83–. ISBN   978-3-11-019086-1.
  8. ↑ Maria Malec  [ pl ], Budowa morfologiczna staropolskich złożonych imion osobowych (The morphological structure of the Old Polish compound names). Wrocław, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, 1971.
  9. ↑ Halszka Górny  [ pl ], SŁOWIAŃSKIE IMIONA DWUCZŁONOWE ZACHOWANE W NAJSTARSZYCH POLSKICH TOPONIMACH (REKONESANS), Onomastica LXI/1, 2017, pp. 255-264, doi : 10.17651/ONOMAST.61.1.16
  10. ↑ Maria Malec, Staropolskie skrócone nazwy osobowe od imion dwuczłonowych, 1982 (in digital library
  11. ↑ Jména a tradice v českých a německy mluvících zemích

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