The Origins of Pomerania’s Choronyms in the Light of Linguistic Material

Abstract

This article presents an analysis of linguistic data concerning the origins of Pomerania’s choronyms and revisits two conflicting hypotheses. One of them assumes endonymy, the other a borrowing from (Old) Polish-speaking neighbours from the south. The aim of the presented analysis is to include in the debate, so far dominated by historians and archaeologists, linguistic data from Kashubian, Polish and Polabian, as well as to propose a possible solution to this question.