Structural and Semantic Features of Place Names in Upper Lusatia (Eastern Germany)

Place-names make up a significant part of the onomastic lexical fund. Historically developed toponymic systems are usually heterogeneous and combine multi-language material, formed in the toponymy in different historical epochs. This article reflects the results of the analysis of structural and semantic features of oikonyms in historical and geographical area of Eastern Germany - Upper Lusatia. The author detects the ways of integrating the Lusatian oikonyms in the German language from the synchronic point of view. In turn, each way of integration is considered in this study diachronically