Characteristics of anthroponymy of Kleck region from 19th to the beginning of 20th century

Nina Bycul

Uniwersytet w Białymstoku

Abstract

The subject matter of the article are surnames which appeared in the Wedding Registry as well as in the documentary-historical chronicle of Kleck region. The gathered data show the diversity of etymological sources of anthroponyms with the prevalance of Belorusian linguistic elements. The surnames have typical Belorussian phonetic, word-formative, and semantic elements such as tsyekannye (Cimawiec), dzyekannye (Gordziejczyk), akannye (Makowczuk – Makawczuk), yakannye (Jaluga), changing initial [w] into [u] (Ulasień, Ulasiuk). As a result of mutual intertwining of cultures there appeared surnames of different origins such as Polish (Nawrocki), Ukrainian (Kowalczuk), Russian (Popow), Baltic (Bajgus) and Jewish (Mazja).

Keywords:

linguistic, onomastics, anthroponymy, surnames