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From: "msjallen" <>
Subject: Re: [LITHUANIA-L] Fw: Lithuanian Onomastics
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 14:55:03 -0400
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The use of Stanislaw, and other traditional Slavic personal names, by
peasants would be just like the later use of Vytautas and Kestutis and
Mindaugas as personal names by non-armigerous Lithuanians. Obviously these
names were not used by peasants in the actual period in which these names
were originally being created.
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Not disputing, just asking a question in the interest of information ... why
would you say OBVIOUSLY these names were not used ... one might suspect that
these names, or some of them, were already in spoken usage and thus
additional clarifying phraseology like "The Great" was applied to
differentiate between the particular person/nobleman and others with the
same name - eg Vytautas the Great, THE Vytautas, as opposed to 1000 or more
other men with the same name. No? Again, just curious!
Sharon A


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