Die Vollnamenhinterglieder -mir und -mer in slawischen Personen- und Ortsnamen

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Abstract

The Old Russian personal names Volodimirъ, Vladimirъ and Volodimerъ
form the basis for this study. The origin of the second component
-merъ is controversial. Does it go back to Proto-Slavic *-měrъ or did it come
from the Germanic languages? Up to now the extent of its occurrence in the
Slavic languages has also been unclear. For this reason, more precise research
was conducted on the basis of personal and place names in the Czech, Old
Sorbian, Old Polabian and Polish language areas. Two place name maps illustrate
the results for the Czech area. The component -mer of compound names
could not be reliably verified in any of the four language areas. For South
Slavic, several old names with -mer were found in Greek sources. Together
with the few Old Russian compound names ending in -merъ this indicates a
Proto-Slavic origin for this component.