Imiona odojcowskie w metrykach parafii prawosławnej w Białowieży na przełomie XIX i XX wieku
Patronyms in the Church Registers of the Orthodox Parish in Białowieża in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents a linguistic characteristic of patronyms contained in parish registers of the Orthodox parish in Białowieża in the years 1891-1895 and 1906-1910. The forms of paternal names are discussed, as well as their variability resulting from the use, as motivating bases, of various phonetic-morphological variants of first names. The onomastic material reveals that in addition to the canonical names, their literary („official secular”) and less frequent colloquial variants were used in the creation of patronyms. The variation in the forms of paternal names can also be seen at the structural level, as besides the male patronymics with -ov, -ev, -in, which were typical for the period in question, there appeared forms with the suffix -ič. In female identification formulas, otčestva were written, with few exceptions, in full forms with -ovna, -evna, -inična.

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