KILKA UWAG O CEHCHACH JĘZYKOWYCH NAZWISK NA PODSTAWIE "POZNAŃSKICH KSIĄG PRZYJĘĆ DO PRAWA MIEJSKIEGO" (XVI-XVIII W.)
A FEW COMMENTS ON THE LINGUISTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF SURNAMES BASED ON THE POZNAŃ "KSIĘGI PRZYJĘĆ DO PRAWA MIEJSKIEGO" (16TH-18TH CENTURIES)

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the article is a linguistic analysis of proper names (anthroponyms) excerpted from the Poznań księgi przyjęć do prawa miejskiego [books on the civil law] (1575–1793). The surnames of the residents of Poznań characterised here confirm the progress of various linguistic phenomena over three centuries (16th, 17th, 18th centuries), that is those typical of the historical Polish language and characteristic for the dialect of Greater Poland. Although it is difficult to draw conclusions based on individual excerpts, it is possible to discern features of the dialect of Greater Poland in the analysed names, e.g. diversification -ow//-ew, high frequency of the suffix -ski, lack of forms created as a result of the simplification of the consonant cluster chw- to f-. The onomastic processes indicate the existence of certain anthroponymic predilections of creators of names, which became the onymic usage, e.g. the formation of certain types of surnames or the employment of characteristic surname-forming suffixes. Certain processes became a consequence of the social, economic and/or cultural correlations of those days (e.g. Germanisation /Polonisation of proto-surnames). The geographical location of the city was also reflected in the anthroponymic structures of the residents of Poznań (dialectal elements in historical surnames).

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