OLD ENGLISH COMPOSITA WITH leōd, liud IN STRUCTURAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL TERMS (AGAINST GERMANIC BACKGROUND)

Abstract

Summary. The paper focuses on the study of historical-linguistic research of OE anthroponyms-composites with Anglo-Saxon leōd, liud. The topicality of this paper is determined by a lack of attention to research in field of Old English historical anthroponymy. The purpose of study is the description of structural types of anthroponymic composites with component leōd, liud. The object of the research is Nomina Personalia nouns, taken from Anglo-Saxon monuments of V–X cent. AD, which are formed by the way of compounding. Morphological and lexical-semantic peculiarities of OE proper nouns, and their common nouns counterparts, as well as reconstructed Proto-Germanic prototypes constitute the subject of the investigation. As a result of our research, structural types of Anlo-Saxon anthroponyms with liud / leōd are described; Relative Chronology of analysed compound proper names is defined, which determined reconstruction of Proto-Germanic prototypes for oldest anthroponymic compounds; morphological and semantical peculiarities of Anglo-Saxon dithematic anthroponyms are highlighted. Conclusions. Old English reflexes of Proto-Germanic *leuði- in anthroponymic composites are attested only as prepositive determinatives with a postpositive defined word. *Leuði- belongs to the nuclear components in the Proto-Germanic system of creating dithematic names. Old English testifies to the loss of reflexes *leuði- the ability to be a definable member in innovative anthroponymic composites and, possibly, the loss of the Proto-Germanic anthroponymic heritage with traces of their post-positive usage. The ratio in the pair «Old English innovation VS Proto-Germanic archaism» for names with liud/leōd is 4 : 28 units. According to the morphological classification of Old English and Old Sahson composites, their oldest layer shows the determinative and possessive specificity of the combination of parts with a small number of cases of coordination of exponents. Perspectives for further research is to uncover the system of structurally and etymologically identical dithematical anthroponyms in onomastic vocabulary of Slavic and Baltic languages and comparative analyses of their cultural semantics.