Kamajų valsčiaus vandenvardžiai

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Apeliatyvai; Asmenvardžiai; Daryba; Hidronimai; Hidronimas; Kamajų valsčius, Rokiškio apskritis; Kilmė; Onomastikos paveldas; Sėliai; Vandenvardžiai; Vardo daryba; Vietovardžiai; Appellatives; Hydronyms; Kamajai Valsčius, Rokiškis County; Name formation; Onomastic heritage; Origin; Personal names; Place names; Selonians; Word formation.

ENThe present paper deals with hydronyms registered from a living language in the Žemės Vardai questionnaires during the interwar period in Kamajai Valsčius, Rokiškis County. The goal of the paper is to analyse and describe the hydronyms of this rural area from the viewpoint of word formation and origin, as well as to adjust the available hydronymy data after real use of water body names in live language in the then-Kamajai Valsčius is explored. The paper analyses 104 names used in the Kamajai Valsčius, Rokiškis - County, for water bodies: 30 lakes, 70 rivers and rivulets and 4 ditches. Representatives of the oldest layer of the place names have been investigated from the main viewpoints of the analysis of proper nouns: formation and origin. They are found to be most often formed as compound names (c. 33%), and less than a third (c. 29%) of the hydronyms studied are formed without the word formation means. Even less productive (c. 19%) are composite water body names. About one of ten hydronyms are derivatives of suffix (c. 10%) and ending (c. 9%) types, and there is one case of prefix type. According to the origin, a bit more than two thirds of hydronyms studied are composed of common words (c. 70%). The rest hydronyms (c. 28%) originate from proper nouns: personal names (c. 9%) and other toponyms (c. 19%). Two river names are registered as potentially related to both appelative and/or onimic origin equally. Moreover, the main part (93 of 104) of the hydronyms in the Kamajai area has been found to be attributed to the late layer of Lithuanian hydronyms, i.e. to explain their origin, it was enough to use Lithuanian words. [From the publication]