WOLD - Word: lěgwo

Loanword Information
Borrowed status Borrowed status The Lower Sorbian vocabulary is relatively well described. Although so far there is no systematic comprehensive study of loanwords in Lower Sorbian, there exist some dictionaries, the Sorbian Language Atlas and quite a lot of detailed research literature. In most cases the loanword status of a given word is determined on the basis of these sources. 0 (No evidence for borrowing) Words that are shown to be inherited from Proto-Slavonic or from an older historical stage of Sorbian without having been borrowed into it. 1 (Very little evidence for borrowing) Mainly words of unclear etymology, but without further or only with meanwhile disproved indication that they are borrowed. In some other cases there is some indication that an indigenous word was replaced by a German loanword and later reborrowed from Upper Sorbian. 2 (Perhaps borrowed) Mainly words of unclear etymology, but with some indication that they are borrowed. In some other cases it seems possible that an indigenous word was replaced by a German loanword and later reborrowed from Upper Sorbian, but it cannot be excluded that the original Lower Sorbian word had coexisted with the German loanword, although being less frequent than the loanword. 3 (Probably borrowed) Mainly words generally considered to have been borrowed, but where there is still some doubt about it. One group of words within this category consists of items that are probably borrowed from Upper Sorbian but could also have been built on a Lower Sorbian basis under Upper Sorbian influence. 4 (Clearly borrowed) Words generally considered to have been borrowed and where there is no doubt about it. Words not yet documented or not explicitly characterized as loans are assigned to category 4 if their status as a loanword was obvious (e.g. ocean < NHG Ozean ‘the ocean’). :	2. probably borrowed
Source words:	lěhwo 'camp', from Upper Sorbian
Reference(s) Reference(s) BC (Bramborski Serski Casnik). Lower Sorbian weekly newspaper, 1848-1933. Bielfeldt, Hans Holm. 1933. Die deutschen Lehnwörter im Obersorbischen. Leipzig: Harrassowitz. Bielfeldt, Hans Holm. 1972. „Die Entlehnungen des Niedersorbischen aus dem Niederdeutschen“. In: Zeitschrift für Slawistik 17.3: 329-345. Bielfeldt, Hans Holm. 1977. „Die ältesten nicht mehr gemeinslawischen Entlehnungen des Nordwestslawischen aus dem Deutschen“. In: Zeitschrift für Slawistik 22.4: 431-454. Bielfeldt, Hans Holm. 1983: „Die Vertretung deutscher e-Laute in sorbischen Entlehnungen“. In: Zeitschrift für Slawistik 28.3: 358-372. DNW. 2003-09. Starosta, Manfred; Hannusch, Erwin; Bartels, Hauke: Deutsch-Niedersorbisches Wörterbuch. URL: http://www.niedersorbisch.de Fabricius 1709. Das Neue Testament […] ind die Nieder-Lausitzsche Wendische Sprache übersetzet […]. Kahren. Hauptmann, Johann Gottlieb. 1761. Niederlausitzsche Wendische Grammatica. Fotomechanischer Neudruck mit einem Vorwort von Helmut Faßke. Bautzen: Domowina 1984. Kluge 2002. Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache. Bearbeitet von Elmar Seebold. 24., durchgesehene und erweiterte Auflage. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter. Mucke, Ernst. 1911-28. Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. St. Petersburg 1911-15, Prag 1928. Newerkla, Stefan Michael. 2004. Sprachkontakte Deutsch – Tschechisch – Slowakisch. Wörterbuch der deutschen Lehnwörter im Tschechischen und Slowakischen: historische Entwicklung, Beleglage, bisherige und neue Deutungen. Frankfurt a.M. et al.: Peter Lang. Pohontsch, Anja. 2002. Der Einfluss obersorbischer Lexik auf die niedersorbische Schriftsprache. Bautzen: Domowina. Schuster-Šewc, Heinz. 1968. Wo problematice serbskeho etymologiskeho słownika. In: Faßke, H.; Lötzsch, R. (Hrsg.): Beiträge zur sorbischen Sprachwissenschaft. Bautzen 1968. 106-123. Schuster-Šewc, Heinz. 1983-96. Historisch-etymologisches Wörterbuch der ober-und niedersorbischen Sprache. Bautzen: Domowina. Schuster-Šewc, Heinz. 2000. „Die Schichtung des sorbischen Wortschatzes.“ In: Schuster-Šewc, Heinz: Das Sorbische im slawischen Kontext. Ausgewählte Studien. Bautzen: Domowina. 256-265. Sorbischer Sprachatlas. 1965-96. 15 vol. Bautzen: Domowina. Starosta, Manfred. 1999. Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina. Zwahr, Johann Georg.1847. Niederlausitz-wendisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch. Fotomechanischer Neudruck mit einem Vorwort von Helmut Faßke. Bautzen: Domowina 1989. :	Schuster-Šewc 1983, 821
Effect:	Coexistence
Salience:	Present in pre-contact environment
Contact situation:	Upper Sorbian as a model Upper Sorbian as a model Regardless of the close relationship between the two Sorbian languages one can recognize an increasing influence of Upper Sorbian on the Lower Sorbian literary language in the last two centuries. In the middle of the 19th century Upper Sorbian culture experienced a revival with a lot of new publications in literature and a steady flow of new words. In Lower Lusatia this process began later and was also less intensive so that Upper Sorbian became a model for the development of the Lower Sorbian lexicon. Up to 1945 the main agents of the Lower Sorbian literary language were native speakers, mostly schoolmasters and pastors. At this time Upper Sorbian influence is found only with respect to new terminology, to the replacement of German borrowings for purist reasons and to some grammatical structures.

lěgwo

a word from Vocabulary Lower Sorbian

General Information
Word form:	lěgwo
LWT meaning(s):	the camp
Analyzability:	unanalyzable
Age:	Before 1900 (1200–1900)
Register:	Formal