Problems of Etymological and Motivational Interpretation of Czech Compound Toponyms

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Štěpán, Pavel
Problems of Etymological and Motivational Interpretation of Czech Compound Toponyms.
Onomastica Uralica. -, č. 15 (2019), s. 57-63. ISSN 1586-3719
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378092
Klíčová slova: toponyms * compound toponyms * etymology * motivation
Obor OECD: Linguistics
Způsob publikování: Open access
http://mek.oszk.hu/21300/21392/21392.pdf

The aim of the paper is to emphasize the specificities of the interpretation of compound topoynyms that form a distinctive part of Czech toponyms. Not only etymological interpretation of the individual components, but also identificationof the syntactic relationship between them is necessary. Without this identification, which is often more difficult that the etymology in the narrow sense, it would be impossible to discover the particular naming motive. However, even the etymology of the individual components of the toponym may be sometimes immensely complicated, as it is illustrated on the example of the name Čertoryje.This toponym enables several possible interpretations, none of which is completely satisfactory. The last part of thepaper focuses on the problem of the very identification of a toponym as a compound. If a name undergoes some phonological changes, its original structure is obscured and it is impossible to interpret the name without relevant historical records that can help us identify that the name consists of two lexical roots.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0318079