Construction Terminology at the Beginning of the XXth Century: Analysis of Terms Used in “Construction Art and Technology” (1922–1923)

The article analyses some construction and construction-related terms used in the journal Statybos menas ir technika / Construction Art and Technology (published in 1922–1923). The development of the construction terminology system over a short period of independence of Lithuania (1918–1940) is focused upon. Most attention is paid to the terms that are inconsistent with those currently used. The article discusses the influence of others languages on the Lithuanian language and, at the same time, how loanwords were adapted to Lithuanian language system. During the period analysed, the principles of the purity of the language and systematicity of terminology became important; therefore, new terms were created in accordance with the word-formation system of the Lithuanian language. In the current paper, affixal and compositional one-word term-formation is analysed, the frequency of derivatives of chosen models is assessed, and compound denotata are discussed