Prūsistika K. O. Falko rankraštiniame palikime

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PRUSSIAN PHILOLOGY IN K. O. FALK’S MANUSCRIPTS

Summary

On the basis of the preliminary analysis of Knut Olof Falk’s (1906-1990) manuscripts the conclu­sion can be drawn that the research into the Germanization of Prussian proper names, toponyms and vo­cabulary is Falk’s main merit to Old Prussian philology. Deserving attention is the idea about the substi­tutional and additional final -e as an inflectional element of Middle Low German, with the help of which Germans used to grammaticalize proper names and sometimes appellatives of Old Prussian. An attempt to interpret toponyms in -ayn, -ayen, -igen, etc. as having the authentic non-suffixal pluralia tamtum form in -(i)ai seems to be less convincing.