# Dithematic name

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Given name type

A **dithematic name** is a single-word [given name](/source/Given_name) consisting of two [lexemes](/source/Lexeme) or [stems](/source/Stem_(linguistics)), to be distinguished from [compound names](/source/Compound_name), which consist of several separate words. They are commonly dated from pre-Christian times among [Indo-Europeans](/source/Indo-Europeans),[1][2][3] in particular, Lithuanians,[4][5][6] Germanic, and Slavic peoples.[7][8][9]

**Single-lexeme names** or **monothematic names** are names based on a single lexeme/stem.

Polish linguist [Zofia Kaleta](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zofia_Kaleta&action=edit&redlink=1) asserts that many Old Germanic and Old Slavic dithematic given names reflected wishes for newborns.[7]

Since dithematic names are often long, they became truncated, first as diminutives, which had later become regular given names of their own.[10] Czech examples: Rostislav – Rost; Svatopluk – Pluk; Radomír – Radim; Sbyslav – Sbych; Sdeslav – Sdeš, Sdenĕk (Zdeněk); Dobromil – Došek; Přemysl – Přek; Budihost – Buň.[11]

## See also

- [Glossary of pre-Christian Lithuanian names](/source/Glossary_of_pre-Christian_Lithuanian_names)

- [Germanic dithematic name](/source/Germanic_dithematic_name)

- [Slavic dithematic name](/source/Slavic_dithematic_name)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-zoka2003_1-0)** [Zofia Kaleta](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zofia_Kaleta&action=edit&redlink=1), [WHAT CAN THE ANCIENT INDO-EUROPEAN COMPOUND NAMES REVEAL ABOUT THE SPIRITUAL CULTURE OF OUR ANCESTORS?](https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/35105), *FOLIA ONOMASTICA CROATICA* 12–13 (2003–2004), pp. 249-257

1. **[^](#cite_ref-zoka1994_2-0)** KALETA Z. 1994–95, Human values as reflected in Indo-European compound first names. *Onoma* 32. Leuven, pp.83–94

1. **[^](#cite_ref-albris-2020_3-0)** Albris, Sofie Laurine (2020). ["Animal art and personal names in Iron Age Scandinavia: Different media – corresponding cultural codes?"](https://onomajournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Onoma-55-1.04-Albris-final-web-August.pdf) (PDF). *Onoma*. **55**: 77–97 (pp 80–81). [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.34158/ONOMA.55/2020/5](https://doi.org/10.34158%2FONOMA.55%2F2020%2F5).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-kagi_4-0)** K. A. GIRVILAS, [PRE-CHRISTIAN NAME GIVING IN LITHUANIA](http://www.old.lituanus.org/1978/78_3_02.htm), *[Lituanus](/source/Lituanus)*,Volume 24, No.3 - Fall 1978

1. **[^](#cite_ref-anpa-vy_5-0)** [Antanas Pakerys](/source/Antanas_Pakerys), [Dvikamienių lietuvių vyrų vardų kirčiavimas: pirmųjų dėmenų tvirtapradė priegaidė](https://www.baltistica.lt/index.php/baltistica/article/view/1312) [ACCENTUATION OF LITHUANIAN COMPOUND MALE NAMES: THE ACUTE OF THE FIRST COMPONENT], [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.15388/baltistica.44.2.1312](https://doi.org/10.15388%2Fbaltistica.44.2.1312) ([somewhat different version](https://etalpykla.lituanistika.lt/fedora/objects/LT-LDB-0001:J.04~2010~1367171236926/datastreams/DS.002.0.01.ARTIC/content))

1. **[^](#cite_ref-anpa-mo_6-0)** Antanas Pakerys, [Dvikamienių lietuvių moterų vardų kirčiavimas](https://etalpykla.lituanistika.lt/fedora/objects/LT-LDB-0001:J.04~2011~1367179641935/datastreams/DS.002.0.01.ARTIC/content) [Accentuation of Lithuanian dithematic feminine given names]

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-wila_7-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-wila_7-1) [Willy van Langendonck](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Willy_van_Langendonck&action=edit&redlink=1) [[nl](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_van_Langendonck)], [*Theory and Typology of Proper Names*](https://books.google.com/books?id=B7jOGz7zMnwC&pg=PA83). Walter de Gruyter. 2007. pp. 83–. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-3-11-019086-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-11-019086-1).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-mama71_8-0)** [Maria Malec](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maria_Malec&action=edit&redlink=1) [[pl](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Malec_(j%C4%99zykoznawczyni))], *Budowa morfologiczna staropolskich złożonych imion osobowych* (The morphological structure of the Old Polish compound names). Wrocław, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, 1971.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-hago_9-0)** [Halszka Górny](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Halszka_G%C3%B3rny&action=edit&redlink=1) [[pl](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halszka_G%C3%B3rny)], [SŁOWIAŃSKIE IMIONA DWUCZŁONOWE ZACHOWANE W NAJSTARSZYCH POLSKICH TOPONIMACH (REKONESANS)](https://onomastica.ijppan.pl/index.php/ONOM/article/view/148/93), *Onomastica* LXI/1, 2017, pp. 255-264,[doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.17651/ONOMAST.61.1.16](https://doi.org/10.17651%2FONOMAST.61.1.16)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-mama82_10-0)** Maria Malec, *Staropolskie skrócone nazwy osobowe od imion dwuczłonowych*, 1982 ([in digital library](https://rcin.org.pl/dlibra/publication/15340/edition/2698/content)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** [Jména a tradice v českých a německy mluvících zemích](https://theses.cz/id/vcr9l8/595812)

### Further reading

- [Silvo Torkar](/source/Silvo_Torkar), (2013). [Dvočlenski slovanski antroponimi v slovenski toponimiji](https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/jz/article/download/2322/2098/6385). Jezikoslovni zapiski XIX, s. 111–128, [http://www.dlib.si/details/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-RVDPZUCD](http://www.dlib.si/details/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-RVDPZUCD)

- Сулямова Рузанна Мухтасымовна , [Этимологический анализ антропонимов сибирских татар в XIX В. (на примере юрт Араповских Тобольской губернии](https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/etimologicheskiy-analiz-antroponimov-sibirskih-tatar-v-xix-v-na-primere-yurt-arapovskih-tobolskoy-gubernii) - Discusses dithematic Siberian Tatar names (among other types)

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