Living (unofficial) personal names and naming models of married women in Paprad Cover Image

Živé osobné mená a pomenovacie modely v triede vydatých žien v Papradi
Living (unofficial) personal names and naming models of married women in Paprad

Author(s): Miroslav Kazík
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Descriptive linguistics
Published by: Pedagogická fakulta Univerzity J. Selyeho
Keywords: onomastics; living (unofficial) names; Stará Turá; Paprad

Summary/Abstract: The article summarizes the characteristics of the unofficial (living) personal names of married women in the largest settlement of town Stará Turá – Paprad (Western Slovakia). It brings the results of quantitative analysis of unofficial (living) personal names. The core of the article is formed by the overview of the distribution of naming models, along with unofficial (living) personal names. The most frequent unofficial (living) personal names in the class of married women in Paprad are two-member unofficial (living) personal names (39.4%) and three-member models (40.3%). Models with a frequency of 1 are 167, which is 81.07% of models. In total there are 206 models of names of married women. The living personal names of the most frequent model, which is a one-member model with a functional element surname by father in the form of a dialectical suffix -ka, account for only 2.23% of all living personal names in the class of married women in Paprad. Direct, indirect and descriptive live personal names are documented in the site and class.

  • Issue Year: 17/2022
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 104-117
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Slovak