J. A. Pabrėžos geografijos vadovėlio terminai
The terminology of J. A. Pabrėža's geography textbook

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with the terminology of the first Lithuanian Geography textbook written by J. A. Pabrėža (1771–1849), a famous Samogitian naturalist and Franciscan Father. Pabrėža created terms by three means: 1) making terms out of folk lexis, 2) derivating neologisms, 3) borrowing terms (from other languages). Pabrėža termed many special geography lexis of his native dialect (kalns ‘mountain’, ópy ‘river’, sała ‘island’); created suitable terms of geography (darbiiby ‘occupation’, ógnakalnis ‘volcano’, dydjuris ‘ocean’ etc.); borowed terms to name various phenomena (geizer ‘geyser’) and used some calques from Greek (źemiuraszts ‘geography’) and Polish (jurtarpis ‘isthmus, neck’). The book was written in his native Northen Samogitian subdialect of Kretinga after 1831 but was not published.

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