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anonymous
Posted Sep 3, 2002 8:53 AM
Do you mean "Lietuviu pavardziu zodynas" (2 vols., Vilnius, 1985)? The book was assembled collectively by teams of linguists. It includes just about all Lith. surnames, where they were found, how many families in each locality. The names are in contemporary, not historical, spelling (e.g., you'll find Bareisa --with a checkmark over the S -- but not Bareisza or Barejsza). The cutoff date was 1939. After that, war, industrialization, etc. brought about massive population movements so that it was no longer possible to localize last names in any linguistically or historically meaningful way. |
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