Re: [tied] Re: -(o,e)vic^

Hi Sergei

What are the Lithuanian forms of personal names...
Solomon
Balthasar
Caesar
Frederick
Louise
Olaf
Roger
Walther
???????

What's the meaning of Lit. names Mindaugas and Vytautas?

Joao SL
Rio de Janeiro,Brasil

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Subject: [tied] Re: -(o,e)vic^


> --- In cybalist@egroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> > I don't know about present-day Lithuanian, but many Polish
> > surnames used to have different forms for "X's (unmarried)
> > daughter" and "X's wife". For example:
> >
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> In Lithuanian it's rule with nearly no exceptions (excluding
> indeclinable non-Lithuanized last names, eg. Landsbergis is
> Lithuanized, but Landsberg is not). It's archaic, it's socially
> incorrect (the discussion has already started), and nevertheless...
> The pattern follows.
>
> Stem father's last name unmarried daughter's last name
> ---- ------------------ ------------------------------
> -a- Gimbutas Gimbutaite.
> -ja- Budrys Budryte.
> -a_ Dirma Dirmaite.
> -ja_- Ve.ge.le. Ve.ge.lyte.
> -i- Gedris Gedryte.
> -u- Adamkus Adamku_te.
> -ju- Gardz^ius Gardz^iu.te.
>
> The suffix is -iti-a_ (assimilation in -u- case)
>
> Stem husband's last name wife's last name
> ---- ------------------ ------------------------------
> -a- Gimbutas Gimbutiene.
> -ja- Budrys Budriene.
> -a_ Dirma Dirmiene.
> -ja_- Ve.ge.le. Ve.ge.liene.
> -i- Gedris Gedriene.
> -u- Adamkus Adamkiene.
> The suffix is -ein-i-a_ (the stem's vocalism is ignored)
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> Sergei
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