Formy imienne z sufiksem –ko w Kleszczelach na Podlasiu w po owie XVI w.
Given-Name Forms with Suffix -ko in Kleszczele, Podlasie Region in the Mid-16th Century

Summary/Abstract: In the 16th century there was already an established system of Christian names of the inhabitants of eastern Pod-lasie. However, the first-name forms used in this territory at that time significantly differed phonetically and morphologically from their canonical equivalents. Christian names in Slavonic culture were transformed to be adapted to the phonetic and morphological structures of the recipient language system. Slavonic suffixal mor-phemes were added to phonetically transformed and abbreviated Christian names, thereby forming diversified hypocoristic forms. In Podlasie, an important role in the process of morphological adaptation of Christian names was played by the suffix -ko. This suffix is present in more than 75% of all first-name forms with the basic -k- used between the 16th and 18th centuries in eastern Podlasie. The popularity of first-name forms containing the suffix -ko (*-,k+, *-,k+) in eastern Podlasie in the 16th century is confirmed by the land survey document made by Dziewiałtowski in 1560 in Kleszczele, in which there are 89 different first-name forms formed by the suffix -ko from phonetically and morphologically adjusted Christian names.

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