Staropołabskie teonimy *Svętovitъ, *Jarovitъ, *Rujevitъ, *Borovitъ: deadiectiva czy composita?
| Autor: | Michał Łuczyński |
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| Jazyk: | German<br />English<br />French<br />Polish<br />Russian |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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| Zdroj: | LingVaria, Vol 10, Iss 20 (2015) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1896-2122 2392-1226 |
| DOI: | 10.12797/LV.10.2015.20.09 |
| Popis: | Old Polabian theonyms *Svętovitъ, *Jarovitъ, *Rujevitъ, *Borovitъ: deadjectival nouns or compounds? The article reinterpretes the morphological structure of a series of Old Polabian theonyms: *Svętovitъ, *Jarovitъ, *Rujevitъ, *Borovitъ. In the literature, they are quite unanimously considered to be nominal compounds with the element *vitъ ‘dominus, potens’ but this author shows, based on a distribution analysis of the formant *-(o/e)vitъ in the Slavonic languages, that they should be viewed as suffixal derivatives in *-ov-itъ (in the attributive-possessive function), and from the formal point of view, as nouns coined from adjectival bases. The paper concludes with the supposition that theonyms created using this formula were a dialectal innovation and were most likely limited to Old Polabian mythological nomenclature. Probably, they were substitute names and, being appellative epithets, they only became independent in the function of theonyms. |
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