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cybalist@egroups.com, João Simões Lopes Filho <jodan99@...>
wrote:
> What are the Lithuanian forms of personal names...
> Solomon
> Balthasar
> Caesar
> Frederick
> Louise
> Olaf
> Roger
> Walther
> ???????
>
For the first three, it looks like:
Salia~monas (~ for raising tone, noramlly not marked, in dictionaries
and textbooks only)
Baltaza~ras
Ce`zaris (` for short tone).
There's no canonical form for the last names, but the normal
Lithuanizing transcribing would look like:
Frederi`kas
Lu`iza
O`lafas
Ro`dz^eris
Va~lteris.
> What's the meaning of Lit. names Mindaugas and Vytautas?
>
These names are traditional IE dvandvas by form and thrasonics by
content :).
Mindaugas is usually explained as min- 'mention' (<IE *men-'think and
perform other mental activities') + daug- 'many' (I feel that it's
from IE *dheugh- '? sorry, forgot the meaning'), so it means 'the one
who is mentioned a lot; a famous one'.
Vytautas is usually explained as vyd- 'behold' (<IE *ueid- 'see etc.')
+ taut- 'folk, the people' (< IE *teut- 'locals'), i.e. 'seen by
(his) nation; a well-known polititian :)'
Sergei