To the history of the ancient family names formation of modern Belarus areal Cover Image

К истории формирования древних фамилий современного белорусского ареала
To the history of the ancient family names formation of modern Belarus areal

Author(s): Julia Gurskaya
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: onomastics; proper names; ancient family names; composite anthroponymy; etymology; language world-view.

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is investigation of the ancient family names formation of the modern Belarus areal covering three aspects: areal topological, comparatively historical and lingua cultural. The Object Subject of the article is the etymological reconstruction of the anthropo­nymycal archetypes, cultural possibilities and modes of ancient family names conceptualization. We understand the term “ancient family names” as family naming in the XIV–XV centuries when this territory belong to the Great Principa­lity of Lithuania. We attributed to the ancient family names’ nuclear composite and formed out of them short onomastic units that go back, regarding X. Krae, to the ancient European areal. Many anthroponymycal roots entering into the composition of ancient complex names are referred by investigators to the category of relict proper names. Methods of investigation is areal­-typological, comparatively-historical and descriptive. Some methods of onomastic investigation such as etymological, structural and word­-formative analysis were also used. The scientific novelty of the investigation lies in the fact that we propose the concept of the ancient family names formation in Belarus areal in the context of the formation of the European anthroponymycal systems; singled out and systematize the corpus of ancient anthroponymycal and toponymycal lexemes of investigated areal and their etymological conceptual analysis was carried out.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 34
  • Page Range: 31-36
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Russian