Wariantywność nazwisk ewangelików w Zagórowie i okolicy na podstawie ksiąg chrztu z lat 1843–1856. Zmiany w zakresie spółgłosek
Variation in the Surnames of Evangelical Christians in Zagórów and the Surrounding Area on the Basis of Baptismal Registers from 1843 to 1856. Variation in Consonants

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to analyze surnames in terms of their variants in order to determine whether the onymic system was stabilized in this respect and what its nature was. The analyzed material comes from the civil registry records of Zagórów (Słupca district) from the years 1843–1856. Their author was Father Karol Orive. The variants of surnames are primarily determined by the mutual influence of the Polish and German languages. The text examines graphic and phonetic variants. The examined onymic system was based mainly on the principles of the German language with an admixture of Polish; however, it was not fully stable, which is reflected in the existence of variants and rare types. In line with German orthography, [č] was written as tsch, [š] as sch, while such changes as replacing th with t, removing double letters and making sonority and voicelessness visible were influenced by Polish. The instability of the system resulting from the competition between the two languages in question can be seen in the use of the letter z to denote [c] or [z] and the trouble with the notation [ś].

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