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One thing that seems to contradict the opinion that Diėvytis has the suffix -ytis is the place of the accent of this place name in the first syllable, because now words with the suffix -ytis are pronounced in the suffix. If the word dievas were root-pronounced, it would be possible to assume that the ancient pronunciation has been preserved here (see vdkytis), but this cannot be the case here, because the word in question is of terminal pronunciation (now fourth accent). The dialect of this placename is apparently new, because there are often differences in dialect in proper names, especially in placenames and surnames, compared to common nouns of the same kind. That this could have been the case is also shown by another word of similar construction, Deivelaitis „pavardė“, also cf. "Surname". Finally, how this place name should be transposed into literary language is clearly shown by the dialect of the Žemaites Rietaviškiai, to whom this place is also known, Rietaviškiai “instead of the literary diphthong pronounce the diphthong ei, e.g.: deina ie „diena“, the o literary vowel is pronounced the same as in y literary language, e.g., yla. ir The dialectal place name they pronounce Dchiv$firis. Thus, the Rietava Žemaičių dialect clearly shows that the place name in šį literary language should be written pronounce ir Dičėvytis. Another argument for the correctness of this place name is that the same place names have been used by the ancient Prussians. ir This shows, albeit distortedly, ir the Prussian place names Dewitte, Dewythen®. There are more local names with the root dievin Lithuanian-sir peaking areas, e.g. : su Diéminas ,,BTSR, Yviai district, Jaskūnai k. mountain“ (from *Dievmina, where the lip has v disappeared before the lip due to m dissimulation, cf. diemedis < dievmedis, Šeimena < Šeivmena"), Deimena "River of the Kaliningrad Oblast" (from *Daivmena). In the Šilalės Žemaičių dialekte piesaga -ytis has a diminutive meaning, e.g. šunytis "small, weak dog", karytis, "small, weak kitten", mažilytis "small, poor", ežerytis "small, not a lake". The place name Diévytis is probably related to ancient Lithuanian mythology: the lake was probably considered a small su poor god. ar This seems to be shown ir by the abundance of preserved traditions, stories, which mention ir Maironis in his ballad. The connection of these su places with the ancient Lithuanian religion is ir shown by another place name Šveritupis "a river flowing into Dievyčio eZerg". Kekl¥s. The name of the old north-western Žemaitija region is written in two sources: Ceclis or Cecklis®. It remains unclear how the inhabitants pronounced the first sound of the name of their area — c¢ or k. The writing c says almost nothing, because in the same sources c is written in those cases where only R could be pronounced, e.g. : Cartine „Kartena“, Curonia“* „Kuršas“. The writing of c for sound 2 suggests that the first sound of the name of the area could have been pronounced R, since c in the history of the area is $G. Gerullis, Die altpreussischen Ortsnamen (hereinafter ON), 28, Leipzig, 1922. 7 Lkzd, 233. * Probably, with ancient Lithuanian mythology is related and the place name Lasipédis, „Kauno raj, ežeras“ (from * Laumpėdis; lake that appeared at the foot of a fairy), whose trivowel aum will be shortened for the convenience of pronunciation, cf. sukvalt ~ fool, smalgalis ~ pointed tip, see. E, Grinaveckienė, Phonetics of the Mituva river dialect. —Lietuvių kalbotyros klausimai, 1, 147, Vilnius, 1957. t * Dr, A. Bielenstein, The Limits of the Latvian Tribe and the Latvian Language in the Present and in the 13th Century. Jahrhundert, 234, Peterburg, 1892, 10 K. Būga, Lietuvių kalbos žodynas, 1, XCI, Kaunas, 1924, in sources marked tz, e.g. : 322 "Letzime, Rutzowe". This opinion is supported by the common ir words of place names still used in Lithuania: ir There is a river in the Jiesia basin called Kekljs, whose name may be identical to the name of su the said domain. Be Stem, in the same The river flows in the Jiesi basin, named Keklaitis. Nors A. The countries claim that The etymology of the name is unclear. *, but it seems that this word is made of the root kek-(:kekė) suffix iš ir -Ija-; plg. also kékulas,,gniutulas, gumulas“: kekė-+ -leaves; kecta “a crowd, a mob, a bunch”; Blue-tailed shark “a crowd, a crowd”; broken „grupa, minia, kekė“ has co-root *; words in other ide. ir in languages: Latvian kekars "bush"; cekuls ‘skull’; cekūna ‘tail’; Prussian kechrs "Pea"; Russian xoxoa "bush, shrub"!?. Because all the ide. the available examples of su languages, related to keke, have a collective meaning, it can be assumed that the word The squeak will also have had a collective significance; it probably meant a group that in the primitive community could correspond to the human race. Later, when this family of people — the Kekli — began to live a sedentary life, the name had to remain*” — it became the name of the territory where the tribe or family with that name settled. The Curonians, who lived in the north-western part of the area, could pronounce the place name with the c at the beginning of the word Ceklis, as the Latvians now pronounce Lithuanian place names, e.g. : “Laukzeme” (Digu village, Liepaja district); Sakine „Šakyna“, Zagare „Žagarė“. With the root kek we have more place names and surnames: Kekiai „Pajuodupio k. part, Klaipėda raj.“, Kekijs „surname, Skuodas raj.“, Kekinė „Seda raj. forest“, Kėkiškės „Šilalės raj. mountain“, Kekūlės „Skaudvilės raj. field“, Kekūrtė,,Ramygalos raj. bala“, Kekersai (vns. gln. Kekėrsus) „Klaipėdos rey. kaimas“! "; Kekališkių k. (Klaipėda region). Similarly, the names of other white lands are found in current place names, e.g. : Bdrta ‘Prussian land name’’: Bdrtuva ‘river name’, Baftupé ‘Kapsuko raj. upė’; Buffer “person name”; Ndtanga "Prussian land name": Nota (3) "Kretingos raj. upė", Nėrė (2) and Nėtija "Kretingos raj. upė", Ndtera "Ukmergės raj. upė"; Pamedė “Prussian land name”: PomiedziaTM “village”; "Skalva "western Lithuanian land name": Skalojis "river (Pakruojo raj.)", woytowstwo skolwienshie (Skalvių vaitystė)?? ; "Skalvé, Paskalviai "vietos tarp Ragainės ir Tilžės?*". Sūduva: Sūduonia „Kapsuko raj. upė”; The name of the river is derived from the ancient name of the region, the "River of the Rivers" or "River of the Rivers". 2000. pp. CXXV. 1* A, Salys, The Samogitian dialects, 1, 14, Kaunas, 1930. 12 Lkžd, 184. 14 "Litauisch102. es etymologisches Warterbuch von Prof. Dr. Ernst Fraenkel, Lief. 3, Heidelberg. 16 There 234—235, are cases in history when the name of a tribe becomes the name of a region. Known, for example, this is how the history of the name of Russia is explained, see TSRS istorija, 1, 62, Vilnius, 1959. 17, 314. 8 Lithuanian Peasants and Townspeople's Disputes with Manor Owners, 1, 81, Vilnius, 1959; Sources of the History of the Lithuanian SSR, 1, 198, Vilnius, 1955. I» ON, 159. 323