Some Kinship Names in the Manuscript of the Latvian-German Dictionary of Johannes Langius (1685): Regional Features and Their Changes in Lower Kurzeme from the 17th to the 21st Century

Linguistica Lettica 2025
Ieva Ozola, Liene Markus-Narvila

The study of kinship names, their origins, and usage, both synchronically and diachronically, is an interdisciplinary field of research. Latvian linguists have focused on kinship names fragmentarily, both in the context of the study of inherited Baltic or Indo-European lexicon and (episodically) in the context of the study of dialect lexicon. The main text studied during this research, the 17th-century manuscript of the dictionary and grammatical appendix (1685) by Johannes Langius, a pastor of Nīca and Bārta, is not only one of the sources of written Latvian but also evidence of the 17th-century features of the Lower Kurzeme subdialects.

Keywords
Latviešu valoda, Johannes Langius, radniecības nosaukumi, Lejaskurzeme
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Ozola, I., Markus-Narvila, L. Some Kinship Names in the Manuscript of the Latvian-German Dictionary of Johannes Langius (1685): Regional Features and Their Changes in Lower Kurzeme from the 17th to the 21st Century. Linguistica Lettica, 2025, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp.190-207. ISSN 1407-1932.

Publication language
Latvian (lv)