SURNAMES DERIVED FROM NAMES OF PERSONS ACCORDING TO MENTAL PECULIARITIES

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Pages: 398-418

Abstract:

The article proposes an analysis of 80 surnames which are based on the phonetic variants of 33 common nouns meaning mental characteristics of people (24 negative and 9 positive). 31 of these common nouns are borrowed from Turkish language, and only two – from other languages: Romanian (гурман) and Russian (мужик). 17 of them are not recorded as lexical borrowings in Bulgarian language. А part of the stems of the examined surnames are not motivated from word formation point of view so on the soil of the Bulgarian language, as well as of the Turkish. However the prevailing part of stems is formed from the Turkish verb bases. And the third part of them shows formative motivation or at least formative divisibility also in Bulgarian language. This applies especially to those bases, which are formed using the Turkish suffix li/ lu (> Bulg. лия, that shows possession of anything, of a distinctive feature) and siz/-suz (> Bulg. сиз, суз, expressing lack, want of something), as in the examples utlu (> Bulg. *утлия ‘chaste’) and the opposite utsuz (> Bulg. *уцуз ‘shameless’). Several basic common nouns indicate psychic traits of man through their figuratively, as for instance: the name of a person (мужик: ‘Russian peasant’ ’! ‘recluse, a savage’), an animal/bird (чайлак ‘hawk’ ’! ‘youngster mug’), or a technical device (*чакалдак: ‘clapper; ratchet’ ’! ‘chatter, gasser’). The great difference between the total number of the surnames (80) and the motivating them 33 common nouns is partly explained by competition between suf. ски and suf. ов/ ев (and their variants) and, especially – with different sound changes, which have undergone these names.

Keywords:

surname, common noun, word formation structure, suffix, stem

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