Nazwy zawodów w antroponimii dawnego Wołynia (XVI–XVII w.)
Names of occupations in anthroponymy of the Volynia Region

Summary/Abstract: This paper concentrates on the surnames derived from the names of occupations which are language illustrative of living standards of society in Volynia between the 16th and 17th centuries as well as the two-cultural character of this region. They give an idea imagine about the occupational structure of the citizens living in small or big cities, where this type of identifiers occurs often. They indicate the role they had in the history of forming surnames and show the transformation of occupation names from the appellative sphere to the proper nouns and, furthermore, their becoming established in the function of surnames.

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