Zum Ortnamen Kaaden / Kadaň

• Authors: Harald Bichlmeier

Title variants

EN

On the place-name Kaaden / Kadaň

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

EN

The name of the small town Kadaň (Czech), Kaaden (German) in the North-West of the Czech Rebublic lacks an unanimously accepted etymology. The article will discuss the existing etymologies. The Celtic etymology of the place-name proposed some ten years ago in this journal can be dismissed, because too many additional conditioning factors (mostly not corroborated by any parallels) have to be taken into account. It is more probable that the traditional Slavic etymology has to be accepted (again): The Czech place-name Kadaň thus means ‘Kadan’s (castle/town)’ and is derived with the Slavic possessive j-suffix from the rare personal name Common Slavic *Kadanъ, Old Czech Kadan, itself a derivative of the root Common Slavic *kad- ‘to smoke’ vel sim. The German form Kaaden is taken over from Czech Kadaň.

Keywords

EN

German family names; Czech family names; Polish family names; Celtic place-names; Slavic place-names; Czech place-names; German(ic)-Slavic contact-zone

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta onomastica
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 58
• Pages: 16-33
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Harald Bichlmeier

• Acta onomastica, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic