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Studien zu slavischen Gewässernamen und Gewässerbezeichnungen by Jürgen Udolph Review by: H. Leeming The Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 60, No. 1 (Jan., 1982), p. 87 Published by: the Modern Humanities Research Association and University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4208436 . Accessed: 14/06/2014 04:10 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . Modern Humanities Research Association and University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Slavonic and East European Review. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 188.72.126.41 on Sat, 14 Jun 2014 04:10:05 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions

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Studien zu slavischen Gewässernamen und Gewässerbezeichnungen by Jürgen UdolphReview by: H. LeemingThe Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 60, No. 1 (Jan., 1982), p. 87Published by: the Modern Humanities Research Association and University College London, School ofSlavonic and East European StudiesStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4208436 .

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Udolph, Jiirgen. Studien zu slavischen Gewassernamen und Gewasserbezeichnun- gen. Beitrage zur Namenforschung, neue Folge, Beiheft I7. Carl Winter Universitatsverlag, Heidelberg, I979. 640 pp. Maps. Biblio- graphy. DM 92.00.

As epigraph to this monumental work the author has chosen a quotation from Leibniz stressing the importance of river names as testimony for the most ancient past of a language and its speakers. He returns to this theme in his conclusions (pp. 6 I 9-39). Here we find maps showing the expansion of the Slavs from an original homeland on the northern flanks of the Carpathian Mountains; and the occupation of earlier Baltic territories in three waves, first making initial contact with the Balts, secondly bringing the virtual assimilation of the Balts of later Byelorussia and Central Russia, and thirdly, reaching the northern Balts.

Such are the results of Udolph's reading of the massive corpus of material which he has accumulated, ordered and analysed in the preceding five hundred and sixty-three pages. This material is examined in three main sections: words found in West, East and South Slavonic; those found in two groups' those met in only one. In each case the author takes the reconstructed Common Slavonic root as his starting point. After presenting common nouns derived from the given root in a full account which covers not only standard but also dialectal and historical forms, he discusses etymological questions including the spread of the Slavonic word to other languages. There follows an exhaustive catalogue of derived toponyms, in the first place simple adaptations of the root word, and secondly, suffixal derivatives. Udolph states his conclusions in commentaries which close the individual articles. His argumentation is linked to and illustrated by the eighty-nine and twenty-five maps which show the geographical range of Common Slavonic roots and suffixes respectively. Final chapters discuss the problems of word-formation arising from the material; Galician toponyms of possible Illyrian, Thracian and Dacian origin; implications of his research for the early history of the Slavs and the Slavonic language. Some indication of the enormous effort that has gone into this valuable survey of an important sector of Slavonic onomastics is given by the bibliography (pp. I6-44), which must contain at a rough estimate some seven hundred items. Unfortunately these do not include the Old Turkic dictionary of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (Drevnetjurkskij slovar', Leningrad, I 969); it would have been interesting to have his opinion on the second element of balciq baliq (ibidem, p. 8o) 'mud and silt' as the origin of CS *balbk-. This phrase, which occurs in Mehmud of Kashgar's eleventh- century dictionary, has the appearance of an inter-dialectal hendiadys. It may be significant that Dal' gives baliuk (from balciq) as one of his synonyms for R balka (derived by Udolph form CS *balbk-).

Slavists and students of onomastics will be grateful to the author for his unstinting dedication which has produced such a valuable work of reference. If I might add one small drop to this vast reservoir: the toponym Pleso is also met at Fiesa near Piran where the name is given to a cool and pleasant fresh-water lake separated from the sea by a narrow neck of land. London H. LEEMING

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