Women’s names in Boikivschyna at the turn of the 19th century

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Pages: 177-187

Abstract:

The paper analyses women’s names in Boikivschyna (historical ethnographic region in the Carpathian mountains in Ukraine) in official documents collected at the end of 18th century and in the first half of 19th century — so called Josephinian and Franciscan Austrian censi of 1788 and 1820. The main means of identifying married or widowed women were personal names and andronyms, suffixal derivatives of husbands’ names or surnames. Nominative formula of naming of women in 80% of the cases consisted of two elements. The first was the woman’s personal name or a name-derived andronym ending in -ikha that served as a personal name. The second was an andronym ending in - ova, -ina, -ka or sometimes other models, derived from the husband’s surname. In some rare cases widowed women were identified only by the personal name or name-derived andronym. In that case the name was always used jointly with the identifier “widow”.

Keywords:

personal name, andronym, formula of naming

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