Meinungsverschiedenheiten zu altsorbischen Ortsnamenformen. Zur Problematik bei der Rekonstruktion der Ausgangsformen sorbischer Ortsnamen in den Lausitzen

Abstract

The article aims at demonstrating problems in connection with the process of reconstructing Old-Sorbian place names in the area of Upper and Lower Lusatia. On the basis of two books published in 2006 and 2008 by the well known onomast Walter WENZEL (Leipzig) and a critical contribution by the Sorbian linguist and specialist in etymologies Heinz Schuster- Šewc(Bautzen/Budysin) several important and necessary points of view regarding the past of more than thousand years in the tradition of place names are described and discussed.