- AutorIn
- Bernd Koenitz
- Titel
- Leipzig – die Herkunft des Namens ist rein slawisch!
- Zitierfähige Url:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-164193
- Übersetzter Titel (EN)
- Leipzig – the origin of the name is purely Slavonic!
- Quellenangabe
- Namenkundliche Informationen - 107/108.2016
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Auflage: 107/108
Seiten: 441-461
ISSN: 0943-0849 - Erstveröffentlichung
- 2016
- Abstract (EN)
- Leipzig – the origin of the name is purely Slavonic! – It thanks to Karlheinz Hengst that the centuries-old onomastic legend about the name of Leipzig as Old Sorbian *Lipsk- meaning ‘place of lime-trees’ has been called in question. Instead of that legend and a possible new one consisting in the recent interpretation as ‘place in an area abounding with river water’ to a pre-Slavonic (Germanic) root the paper shows that the oldest evidence of the toponym finds an easy explanation as a purely Slavonic one. The <Libzi> from Thietmar’s chronicle is nothing else than Old Sorbian *Liḃci/*Liḃcě, formed as a plural inhabitants’ name on the basis of *liḃc ‘a lean, feeble, puny person’. This explanation is well founded by a series of similarly structured and semantically comparable Czech place names on the one hand and by the historical evidence of the root *lib- in several Slavonic languages on the other. Further, the author questions that later forms of the name containing -<zik>, -<zk>, -<zig> etc originally represent the suffix -sk-. They probably are an early alternative deminutive form *Liḃčky increasing the nature of the toponym as a nickname, the forms Lipsk, Lipsko of modern Polish, Sorbian and Czech presumably being the result of interpreting (written and spoken) Germanized forms from the 14th century.
- Freie Schlagwörter (DE)
- Onomastik, Namenforschung, Eigennamen, Indogermanistik
- Freie Schlagwörter (EN)
- Onomastics
- Klassifikation (DDC)
- 410
- 412
- Verlag
- Gesellschaft für Namenkunde e.V., Leipzig
- Publizierende Institution
- Universität Leipzig, Leipzig
- Version / Begutachtungsstatus
- publizierte Version / Verlagsversion
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-164193
- Veröffentlichungsdatum Qucosa
- 05.10.2017
- Dokumenttyp
- Artikel
- Sprache des Dokumentes
- Deutsch
- Deutsch