DICTIONARY OF REVIVED PRUSSIAN:

are also indisputable Prussicisms that are not attested in the written monuments of
Prussian but that are clear due to their Baltic roots, Prussian forms or local provenance.
Cf. e.g. doc. polayde ‘assets’ (already in G. Nesselmann’s Thesaurus) > NPr. palaid`.
The other source of the Prussicisms is Lithuanian of Lithuania Minor, mostly –
works of Johannes Brettcke (Jonas Bretkûnas) who himself was of Old Prussian
origin. In his lexis the word nepuotis ‘grandson’ is highly interesting as showing that
the Prussians had this old Idoeuropean word familiar from Latin (nepos). For some
reason, this word has disappeared in East-Baltic (cf. Latv. mazdçls, but Lith. Russicism
anûkas). Its New Prussian form is nepûts, in accordance with the “Yatvingized”
phonetics of Samlandian. The German East-Prussian vernacularism Zarm ‘funeral
repast’ was with all probability of the Old Prussian, not Lithuanian origin. By
comparing it with Lith. ðermenys, a NPr. word pl. tantum s`rmenis has been recovered.
Finally, one must search for the Prussicisms in Polish, not only in former Prussian
Mazurian. Many known Polish persons have been of Old Prussian origin (cf. famous
Maria Sk\odowska-Curie whose ancestors came from Old Prussian noblemen Sclode).
In this respect, the name of Pope Johannes Paulus II is very significant: the word
Wojty\a demonstrates Prussian derivation with the suffix -il(a)- (cf. of another root
doc. Waidel ‘vaidila, OPr. wizard’, waidleimai III < *vaidilçjamai ‘we conjure’) from
the verb waiti`t III ‘to speak publicly, to inform’. Thus the word NPr. w`itils ‘speaker’
is restored (with the circumflex `i > Pomezanian ôi).
13.3. Retrieving roots from toponyms
A root may be retrieved from a Prussian toponym and comprehended due to old
German parallel name. Thus the German translation of Tapelawke as Warmfelt
permits to reconstruct a ja-stem adj. *tapja- ‘warm’ > NPr. tappis. Many toponyms
are clear due to coincidence with corresponding Lithuanian words: Bluskaym – cf.
Lith. blusa ‘flea’, kaimas ‘village’ > NPr. blussa ‘flea’. Similarly, widespread second
components of Old Prussian toponyms, such as -pelk, -brast(um), -tilte, point to
Prussian words NPr. pelki ‘swamp’ (attested in E 287), brastan ‘ford’, tiltan ‘bridge’
(the neuter is reconstructed in accordance with Finnish borrowing silta vs. Lith. masc.
tiltas, Latv. tilts). Some of such toponymic elements are even attested as
vernacularisms in German dialects of Baltic Prussia (cf. the toponym Campolaukis
and the dialectal Polonism Kampe ‘Schilf- und Binsen-Inseln in den Haffen und
Strömen, namentlich an den Mündungen der letzteren ins Haff’, Frischb., Polish kæpa
> NPr. kampa ‘reed island in delta’).
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