Z toponimii Roztocza

The author presents a semantic and structural analysis of several puzzling toponymies from the south-east Lublin region. They are the following names of villages: Teniatyska, Podrusów, and parts of villages and hamlets: Sikliwce, Rebizanty, Koszele. Probabilistic research, studies on their history and settlement, a reconstruction of the starting forms of toponymies have made the author to arrive at the following conclusions: Teniatyska is a cultural name connected with the Ukrainian appelative teneta. Primarily, it most probably defined a place where traps or nets were laid. It cannot be excluded that such a place was a water mill of which mention has been made in the notes. Another interpretation allows for the starting form Teniatyn. Then the personal name would be included in the toponym Teniata (Pol. Tenięta). A change in the from of the toponym Teniatyn > Teniatyszcze would be linked with the establishment of a new settlement in place of the deserted one, once inhabited. Podrusów refers to the topographic or water name Rusiec, one that is analogous to the names of the proximate settlements, cf. Susiec. Sikliwce is an ethnic name, most probably primarily referring to a water environment - a near-by stream. With, the name would change its category from the category of ethnic names to the family ones. The process of anthroponimization had taken place in another local name of that area - i.e. Rebiznaty, primarily, Koszele is a typical family name from the personal name Koszel, and the latter is derived from kosz (basket), “a vessel woven from straw and straw.”