Kuoštrõg
Livonian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Like Kūolka the name of Košrags appears in documents only starting with the 18th century. According to L. Kettunen the term may have come from the name of a river Koštõr-joug, he allows the possibility that the ending may stem from agja [aigā?] "edge, area" as well.
The etymology of the first component (Koštõr), however, remains unclear. Of interest is an early variant Košt-joug and Košt-joug-küla which would suggest that the first component might have been Košt- initially. Perhaps it comes from a shortened form of the Latin given name Constantinus. According to sources such names were given not only in the territory of Estonia but by Finnic peoples in Latvia as well: in 1289 – Coste in Riga, from 1355-1362 Coste around Kuldīga also in 15th century – Costi in Rūjiena. The form Kuošt- might have predictably been derived from Koosti common in Estonia but -rags, -rõg (commonly believed to be a Latvian element) might have been added according to the local tradition [cf. Sīkrõg].[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Kuoštrõg
- Košrags (a village in Courland, Latvia)
- Tiit-Rein Viitso, Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz, Tartu, Rīga: TÜ, LVA
- Kuoštrõg – Kuoštrõg – Košrags
- Košrags – Košrags – Košrags
- Kuoštrõg – Kuoštrõg – Košrags
- Tiit-Rein Viitso, Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz, Tartu, Rīga: TÜ, LVA
Usage notes
[edit]This term has open space locative forms: allative Kuoštrõgõlõ, adessive Kuoštrõgõl, ablative Kuoštrõgõld.
Declension
[edit]singular (ikšlug) | plural (pǟgiņlug) | |
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nominative (nominatīv) | Kuoštrõg | – |
genitive (genitīv) | Kuoštrõg | – |
partitive (partitīv) | Kuoštrõgt | – |
dative (datīv) | Kuoštrõgõn | – |
instrumental (instrumentāl) | Kuoštrõgõks | – |
illative (illatīv) | Kuoštrõgõ | – |
inessive (inesīv) | Kuoštrõgs | – |
elative (elatīv) | Kuoštrõgst | – |
References
[edit]- ^ Kersti Boiko, Ziemeļkurzemes piekrastes lībiešu ciemu vietvārdi in Kersti Boiko's Lībieši – rakstu krājums, pages 220-221