Sound Changes as a Source of New Surnames

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Pages: 199-211
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54664/BFBU5381

Abstract:

The article analyzes the origin, the word-formation structure and the primary meaning of 66 surnames. A part of them is based on three personal names: the Armenian Harutiun (1), the Turkish Vehhab (2) and Memo (3). And the other part is based on 6 Turkish common nouns: dağ ‘mountain’ (4), cılız ‘rickety, weak’ (5), dik (bıyık) ‘a drooping moustache’ (6), zaptiye ‘policeman’ (8) and hınzır ‘pig’ (9). Some differences between the Bulgarian phonetic form of borrowings and their Turkish forms are due to the variation in the source language – the corresponding Ottoman-Turkish or Armenian dialect: the disappearance of the consonant [h] and its replacement by the consonant [j]; many forms of Turkish base dağ (4); the vocal harmony in Vaab (3.1); and so on. A significant part of the discussed sound changes is treated as peculiarities of Bulgarian territorial dialects: the reduction of broad vowels, the mutation of vowels in positions following the consonants [in Cyrillic] ж, ч, ш, й; etc.

Keywords:

sound change, root, stem, suffix, personal name, surname, common noun

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