Functional Element „Surname“ in the Model Interpretation of the Living Personal Names of Single Persons in Paprad Cover Image

Funkčný člen „priezvisko“ v modelovej interpretácii živých osobných mien slobodných osôb v Papradi
Functional Element „Surname“ in the Model Interpretation of the Living Personal Names of Single Persons in Paprad

Author(s): Miroslav Kazík
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Ústav pro jazyk český
Keywords: onomastics; living personal names; Paprad

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses another functional element of unofficial personal names in the Stará Turá Kopanica part of Paprad. Attention is focused to a class of single persons. Most of the functional elements have an official form and surnames appear often in a dialectic form with suffixes -éch and -ka. Four of them are in a dialecticaly changed form and they have also dialectical suffix -éch. There are surnames with relational motivation after father, mother, grandfather, grandmother and after friend. Only once the living name occurred with a surname like functional element only. Otherwise, the surnames always associate with other members. They are most frequent in living twice-member personal names. In one of these names two functional elements – surname after father and one after mother was noticed. This article records ways of forming the living names and the usage of cases in these names of single persons in Paprad.

  • Issue Year: LII/2011
  • Issue No: 52
  • Page Range: 83-91
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Slovak