{{Short description|Given name type}} A '''dithematic name''' is a single-word [[given name]] consisting of two [[lexeme]]s or [[stem (linguistics)|stem]]s, to be distinguished from [[compound name]]s, which consist of several separate words. They are commonly dated from pre-Christian times among [[Indo-Europeans]],<ref name=zoka2003>[[Zofia Kaleta]], [https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/35105 WHAT CAN THE ANCIENT INDO-EUROPEAN COMPOUND NAMES REVEAL ABOUT THE SPIRITUAL CULTURE OF OUR ANCESTORS?], ''FOLIA ONOMASTICA CROATICA'' 12–13 (2003–2004), pp. 249-257</ref><ref name=zoka1994>KALETA Z. 1994–95, Human values as reflected in Indo-European compound first names. ''Onoma'' 32. Leuven, pp.83–94</ref><ref name="albris-2020">{{Cite journal| doi = 10.34158/ONOMA.55/2020/5| volume = 55| pp = 77–97 (pp 80–81)| last = Albris| first = Sofie Laurine| title = Animal art and personal names in Iron Age Scandinavia: Different media – corresponding cultural codes?| journal = Onoma| date = 2020| url = https://onomajournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Onoma-55-1.04-Albris-final-web-August.pdf}}</ref> in particular, Lithuanians,<ref name=kagi>K. A. GIRVILAS, [http://www.old.lituanus.org/1978/78_3_02.htm PRE-CHRISTIAN NAME GIVING IN LITHUANIA], ''[[Lituanus]]'',Volume 24, No.3 - Fall 1978</ref><ref name=anpa-vy>[[Antanas Pakerys]], [https://www.baltistica.lt/index.php/baltistica/article/view/1312 Dvikamienių lietuvių vyrų vardų kirčiavimas: pirmųjų dėmenų tvirtapradė priegaidė] [ACCENTUATION OF LITHUANIAN COMPOUND MALE NAMES: THE ACUTE OF THE FIRST COMPONENT], {{doi|10.15388/baltistica.44.2.1312}} ([https://etalpykla.lituanistika.lt/fedora/objects/LT-LDB-0001:J.04~2010~1367171236926/datastreams/DS.002.0.01.ARTIC/content somewhat different version])</ref><ref name=anpa-mo>Antanas Pakerys, [https://etalpykla.lituanistika.lt/fedora/objects/LT-LDB-0001:J.04~2011~1367179641935/datastreams/DS.002.0.01.ARTIC/content Dvikamienių lietuvių moterų vardų kirčiavimas] [Accentuation of Lithuanian dithematic feminine given names]</ref> Germanic, and Slavic peoples.<ref name=wila>{{ill|Willy van Langendonck|nl|}}, {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B7jOGz7zMnwC&pg=PA83|title=Theory and Typology of Proper Names|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|year=2007|isbn=978-3-11-019086-1|pages=83–|author=}}</ref><ref name=mama71>{{ill|Maria Malec|pl|Maria Malec (językoznawczyni)}}, ''Budowa morfologiczna staropolskich złożonych imion osobowych'' (The morphological structure of the Old Polish compound names). Wrocław, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, 1971.</ref><ref name=hago>{{ill|Halszka Górny|pl}}, [https://onomastica.ijppan.pl/index.php/ONOM/article/view/148/93 SŁOWIAŃSKIE IMIONA DWUCZŁONOWE ZACHOWANE W NAJSTARSZYCH POLSKICH TOPONIMACH (REKONESANS)], ''Onomastica'' LXI/1, 2017, pp. 255-264,{{doi|10.17651/ONOMAST.61.1.16}}</ref>
<!--simly as redirect target for disambig-->'''Single-lexeme names''' or '''monothematic names''' are names based on a single lexeme/stem.
Polish linguist [[Zofia Kaleta]] asserts that many Old Germanic and Old Slavic dithematic given names reflected wishes for newborns.<ref name=wila/>
Since dithematic names are often long, they became truncated, first as diminutives, which had later become regular given names of their own.<ref name=mama82>Maria Malec, ''Staropolskie skrócone nazwy osobowe od imion dwuczłonowych'', 1982 ([https://rcin.org.pl/dlibra/publication/15340/edition/2698/content in digital library]</ref> Czech examples: Rostislav – Rost; Svatopluk – Pluk; Radomír – Radim; Sbyslav – Sbych; Sdeslav – Sdeš, Sdenĕk (Zdeněk); Dobromil – Došek; Přemysl – Přek; Budihost – Buň.<ref>[https://theses.cz/id/vcr9l8/595812 Jména a tradice v českých a německy mluvících zemích]</ref>
==See also== *[[Glossary of pre-Christian Lithuanian names]] *[[Germanic dithematic name]] *[[Slavic dithematic name]]
==References== {{reflist}} ===Further reading=== *[[Silvo Torkar]], (2013). [https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/jz/article/download/2322/2098/6385 Dvočlenski slovanski antroponimi v slovenski toponimiji]. Jezikoslovni zapiski XIX, s. 111–128, http://www.dlib.si/details/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-RVDPZUCD *Сулямова Рузанна Мухтасымовна , [https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/etimologicheskiy-analiz-antroponimov-sibirskih-tatar-v-xix-v-na-primere-yurt-arapovskih-tobolskoy-gubernii Этимологический анализ антропонимов сибирских татар в XIX В. (на примере юрт Араповских Тобольской губернии] *:Discusses dithematic Siberian Tatar names (among other types)
[[Category:Types of given name]]