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Recenzijos
However, until recently, it had not been known that J. Bobrowski’s interest
in the Prussian theme also included the Old Prussian language. It
was the efforts of Dr. Kristina Brazaitis, Australia, that lead to the publication
of Bobrowski’s alphabetical list of 583 Old Prussian words found
in a copybook among his other manuscripts preserved in the Marbach
Archives in Germany.
Considering J. Bobrowski’s romantic approach to his themes, it would
not be risky to conclude that he had collected those words in order to
expand his creative literary basis, as well as to use them in the works planned
for the future.
Not only did Dr. Kristina Brazaitis edit and publish the Pruzzische Vokabeln,
but she also performed a thorough textological, as well as linguistic,
analysis of J. Bobrowski’s list of words.
The textological analysis revealed the sources of J. Bobrowski’s lemmas.
K. Brazaitis is right in identifying the Prussian Enchiridion and the
3rd Prussian Catechism in R. Trautmann’s edition 1910 as the sources
used by J. Bobrowski. The same can be said of J. Gerullis’ Ortsnamen
(1922), which is revealed to be the source of an exotic word malcekuku
‚Gehölz der Unterirdischen‘, coined by J. Bobrowski himself due to an erroneous
association with the words malko ‘wood’ and his interpretation of
Cucen-brast (name of a locality) as containing the traditional *kuk-s, i.e.
cawx ‘devil’. The reason was J. Gerullis’ entry of Malcecuke ‘Mehlsack /
Pieniężno’, a name registered in 1312 with the first “c” representing “s”
(not “k”) < Balt. *mal-s- ‘to soothe’. However, K. Brazaitis succeeded in
revealing J. Bobrowski’s special poetic interest in words describing all the
spheres of human life, including concrete landscape, flora, and fauna. That
influenced the selection of words in his list. As a result, the list included
a number of names of localities in Lithuania Minor (Prussian Lithuania)
which he often tried to explain through Old Prussian meanings. There is
no doubt that he made curious mistakes, as is conclusively shown by the
editor.
Moreover, K. Brazaitis’ special interest in Baltic etymology resulted in
linguistic analysis of the material used by J. Bobrowski. As her analysis
was based on the classical Etymological Dictionary of Prussian by Vytautas
Mažiulis, not to mention such classics as E. Fraenkel or J. Pokorny, the
book under review can be called a remarkable contribution to the Baltic
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