Talk:Břeclav

Hungarian name of Břeclav

Břeclav doesn’t have (and never had) Hungarian name as Leventevár. There are no written evidences that could prove its existence. It is a 20th century coinage based upon a chain of unjustified suppositions. These suppositions confuse the first element 11th century form Lauentenburch of the present German name Lundenburg with the name of two Hungarian princes Levente (11th c.) and Liuntika (9-10th c.). During the first half of the 10th century, this area was occupied by the Hungarian tribes, therefore theoretically it could be named after Prince Liuntika but not in the form of an anachronistic name like Levente. From the name of Liuntika we would expect rather *Liuntichsburch (or *Liuntigenburch etc.) as an early German name and *Leundichsburg (or *Leund[ig]enburg etc.) as present form. Cf. OHG friunt > MHG vriunt > G Freund, OHG liuti > MHG liute > G Leute. Moreover, Hungarian toponyms named after persons were not built as compounds before the 13th century. This applies to the second element vár ‘castle, G. Burg’ too. The form Leventevár is simply a recent miscomprehended calque of the old German name Lauentenburch disseminated among less-literate people by only Wikipedia articles like this. -- LvT (talk) 13:23, 9 September 2018 (UTC)