SUFIX *-ĒN- V SLOVANSKÝCH ETNONYMÁCH VO SVETLE ICH VARIANTNOSTI

• Authors: Diweg-Pukanec Martin

Title variants

EN

Suffix *-ēn- in Slavic ethnonyms in the light of their variation

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

When researching Slavic tribal names, we may come across several tribes with two names based on one and the same root. This concerns, inter alia, also ethnonym Slav/Slavon. The names with the suffix -jane/-ěne, from Proto-Slavic *-ēn-, coexist with the other names, which are mostly autodenomination, and patronymic ones, however, they are not always derived from the latter names and they cannot mostly refer to a place. The assumption of analogies to Moravian-type ethnonyms, which were the most common in medieval times, is not fully justified, since the age of the records suggests that the records with the suffix *- ēnare as old or in several cases even older than those without it (e.g. *Tuchorěne, known as early as the 10th century, is recorded as *Tuchori only in the second half of the 11th century). In the light of this fact, the suffix *-ēn- must be reinterpreted.

Keywords

EN

ETHNONYM; ETYMOLOGY; PROTO-SLAVIC; SLAVIC LANGUAGES; SLAVIC STUDIES

• Publisher: Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre
• Journal: Konštantínove listy
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 3-10

Contributors

author

Diweg-Pukanec Martin

• Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Faculty of Arts, Štefánikova 67, 949 74 Nitra, Slovak Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4175-1727

Identifiers

DOI

10.17846/CL.2023.16.1.3-10