Przyczynek do antroponimii karaimskiej: nieodnotowane gdzie indziej nazwiska i przydomki w trzech XVIII-wiecznych dokumentach z Krymu
Remarks on Karaite Anthroponymy: Names and Nicknames not Elsewhere Reported from Three 18th Century Documents from the Crimea

Summary/Abstract: The surnames of Karaites from the Crimea have long been of interests to both scholars and the Karaites themselves. Several collections of such names have been produced, including a list found in a Karaite Russian-Polish dictionary (Karaimsko-russko-pol’skij slovar’, Moscow 1974) and the electronic list of over 1,600 items just made available recently. Three manuscripts kept in the Russian National Library in Petersburg – two records of election of gabbais from 1788 and 1794, containing the lists of persons authorized to vote, and a list of wedding gifts from 1786 with the donors’ names – represent a valuable record of Karaite anthroponymy in the transitional period, during which unofficial anthroponyms became protonames before they began to assume the final form as officially required surnames by the beginning of the 19th century. The article contains an analysis of origin and meaning of 34 anthroponyms appearing in these manuscripts that have not appeared in other sources yet.

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