Variations of first names and their grammatical forms (based on metrical records of the Orthodox parish of St Michael the Archangel in Bielsk Podlaski)

Michał Mordań

Uniwersytet w Białymstoku

Abstract

This article deals with secular, colloquial, abbreviated, and other variants of first names stored in the parish metrical records as official forms of baptismal names. As informal names they reflect phonetic and morphological features of the language, allowing to distinguish them from the canonical forms, from which they were created.

Keywords:

linguistic, onomastics, first names, variations of first names