Dėl baltų kalbų šaukšto ir skydo pavadinimų kilmės

• Main Author: Simas Karaliūnas
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Vilnius University 2011-10-01
• Series: Baltistica
• Subjects: etimologija; baltų kalbos; šaukštas; skydas
• Online Access: http://www.baltistica.lt/index.php/baltistica/article/view/301
• ISSN: 0132-6503; 2345-0045

<p><strong>NAMES FOR SHIELD AND SPOON IN BALTIC AND THEIR ORIGIN</strong></p> <p><em>Summary</em></p> <p>As a recurring connection of names for shield in the Indo-European languages is that with words for &bdquo;board&ldquo;, properly applied to a wooden shield, Lith. <em>skỹdas, </em><em>skydà </em>(acc. sing, <em>skỹdą) </em>&bdquo;shield&rdquo; and then-counterparts in Latvian <em>&scaron;ķīda, &scaron;ķīdre </em>&bdquo;id.&rdquo; seem etymologically to belong to the group of words Lith. <em>skiedrà </em>&bdquo;chip, sliver, shingle (for roofing)&rdquo;, <em>skiedà </em>&bdquo;id.&rdquo;, Latv. <em>skaîda, </em><em>skaids </em>&bdquo;chip; shingle&rdquo;.</p> <p>Some of the North European words for spoon reflect development of a wooden spoon from a flat chip or a splinter. This development is shared also by Lith. <em>&scaron;áuk&scaron;tas </em>&bdquo;spoon&rdquo;, an old suffix <em>-sta- </em>nomen instrumenti, with regular root vowel interchange <em>á</em><em>u </em><em>: </em><em>ū́/u </em>connected with Lith. <em>&scaron;ùkė </em>&bdquo;splinter; chipped place, spot&rdquo;, Latv. <em>suķe, suķis </em>&bdquo;id.&rdquo;, <em>sûce </em>&bdquo;chipped place, spot&rdquo;, OInd. <em>ṡūkaḥ, ṡ</em><em>ūkam </em>&bdquo;awn of grain; spike of in insect&rdquo;, Av. <em>sūkā- </em>&bdquo;needle&rdquo;.</p> <p>It is almost certain that Prussian <em>lapinis </em>&bdquo;spoon&ldquo; is an indiginous Baltic word with connexions in Slavic and possibly Latvian.</p>