COMMON SLAVIC *plutu- (shallow) IN POLISH HYDRONYMY

• Authors: Babik Z.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In Indo-European there were at least two feminine gender forms of the *-u-stem adjectives: a stem in *-i//ya- as well as a stem in *-u(//wa?)-. It appears probable that both continue forms with a single feminine gender marker *-(y)a//a- added to the root extended or not with *-u-. Since the Common Slavic adjectives *plyt(7)v7 and *plyt7k7, where 7 stands for a high reduced back vowel called 'jer', surviving in the historical Slavic languages, seem to go back to an ancient *-u-stem adjective *plutu-, it is reasonable to look for some traces of *-u-stem inflection (in particular, of its feminine gender forms) in older layers of the Slavic hydronymy in Poland. It is argued in the present paper that the simplest and most elegant way of explaining etymologically the river names Plycwia (Central Poland) and Plytwica (name of two rivers in Northern Poland) is to trace them back to the preforms, respectively, *plytv(j)i (gen. sg. *plytvje), a feminine form of *plyt7 (gen. sg. *plytvu) and *Plyt7vica, the latter derived from another feminine form *plyty (gen. sg. *plyt7ve).

Keywords

EN

*-U-STEM ADJECTIVES IN INDO-EUROPEAN AND BALTO-SLAVIC

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk
• Journal: Onomastica
• Year: 2004
• Volume: 49
• Pages: 23-50
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Babik Z.

• Z. Babik, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Instytut Filologii Slowianskiej, al. Mickiewicza 9/11, 31-120 Kraków, Poland,

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

05PLAAAA00471195