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The paper deals with the structure and vocabulary of Old English heteroclitic anthroponyms with nuclear component subst. weald, (old Saxon) wald ‘power’, ‘strength, might’, ‘security, patronage’, adj. weald, (old Saxon) waldo ‘powerful, mighty’. Combinatorial semantic peculiarities of w [e]ald- which allow this component to combine selectively with other lexical stems are defined. Observation of the semantics of the words functioning in pre- or post-position to weald-/waldleads to the classification of the studied anthroponymic compound words, and further to the distribution of nouns in accord with the semantic fields within which they were formed («war», «sphere of the sacred», «social system», «ethnical and moral categories», «military benefits of a warrior, and his honour», «names of peoples», «surrounding world, and its condition», «color naming», «abstract notions »). As soon as there are verbal structural-etymological counterparts of most anthroponymic compound words in archaic onomasticon of other subgroups of the Germanic group of Indo-European languages, the reconstruction of the remaining in Old English monuments fragment of Proto-Germanic anthroponymycon with walda- exponent becomes possible. |
