Names of Animals in Contemporary Surnames of Bielsk Podlaski Residents

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Pages: 280-303
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54664/ZBCI1345

Abstract:

The paper presents the names of animals recorded in the contemporary sur­ names of Bielsk Podlaski inhabitants. The analysis showed that the most com­ mon as the word-formation basis of these surnames were the names of birds (Kulik, Puhacewicz) and the names of mammals (Bober, Wolczuk). The names of insects (Pszczoła, Szerszenowicz) and fish (Akuła, Brzana) are less popular. Other names appear sporadically (e.g. Smoktunowicz, Wąż). The material features surnames from Polish (Sikora, Śledź), Eastem-Slavonic (Krot, Soroka), sometimes also Lithuanian (Ancuta, Gulbinowicz) appellatives. Considering word-formation aspect the surnames which are equal to appe­ llative words predominate, while there are fewer surnames resulting from para­ digmatic or suffixic derivation. In the last group there are the most surnames with patronymic suffixes.

Keywords:

onomastics, anthroponymy, surnames, surnames originating from appellatives, animal names

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