Laurynas Ivinskis' neologisms of mineralogy

Laurynas Ivinskis (1810-1881) in the first part of his manuscript "Prigimtūmenė" presented over 400 terms of geography and mineralogy. His neologisms of mineralogy make about 1/5 of all terms presented in this part. A bit more than a half of neologisms of Ivinskis are derivates, others are compounds. The largest part of the group of derivates are derivates made with suffixes which name mine­rals. Ivinskis used to create derivates not only with popular Lithuanian language formants, for example, the suffixes -enis, -enė, -ainis, -ūnas and the prefix pa-, but also with less popular formants such as the suffixes -ėtras, -einis, -eitis, -ėtis and the prefixes pro-, san-. Ivinskis compounds correspond with the most productive types of the compounding in the modern Lithuanian, though many underlying words of components of compounds are unusual and not characteristic to standard Lithuanian, for example, kūlis, kalkis, gelžis and skiltis. Names of minerals created by Ivinskis practically have not taken root and they are not used in modern terminology probably not only because "Prigimtūmenė" has not been printed, but also because some of his neologisms were unusual and their motivation is not accurate