Historyczne nazwiska kobiet na obszarze wieloetnicznym (na przykładzie dziewiętnastowiecznej antroponimii piotrkowian)
Historical names of women in a multi-ethnic area (based on the example of nineteenth-century anthroponymy of Piotrków residents)

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses the historical nomenclature of women, taking into account the multi-ethnic character of the nineteenth-century region of Piotrków. Maritonymic and patronymic forms show a wide morphological diversity. Surnames taken from fathers were formed with suffixes: -owna //-ówna, -anka oraz -owka // -ówka and the surnames from husbands with the formants: -owa, -awa, -ka, -ycha, -ina // -yna, -in. Systematic names prevail, although there are plenty of exceptional and typical forms for Piotrków’s surroundings, including the occurrence of the suffix -ówka in the surnames of women in the area from Wieluń, to Bełchatów, Łask, Piotrków Trybunalski, Opoczno to Kielce, or the creation of female surnames with the use of the formants -anka oraz -ina // -yna only from the native derivational bases. The occurrence of variant forms, i.e. made of Polish morphological exponents and/or an East-Slavic suffix -icha // -ycha or German -in is a reflection of foreign influences in the nomenclature of Piotrków’s residents.

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