Transformation of suffixes in surnames currently registered in Poland based on the example of -uk/-czuk form s Cover Image

Transformacja sufiksów w nazwiskach rejestrowanych współcześnie w Polsce na przykładzie formantu "-uk
Transformation of suffixes in surnames currently registered in Poland based on the example of -uk/-czuk form s

Author(s): Bazyli Tichoniuk
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Translation Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie

Summary/Abstract: Among 10 599 surnames ending in -uk /-czuk and registered in the territory of Poland the names which filled this group as the result of the transformation of the ending part of antroponym include more than 10,60% (1127). The greatest number 87,40 % Constitute the transformation in the suffix structure - -uk /-yk, -ek and -ok, in which instead of the letters i, у, e and о letter и appeared. The remaining of the surnames were created as the result of missing or changing of the last letter. All these surnames are the effect of the mistakes made by clerks.

  • Issue Year: 2004
  • Issue No: IX
  • Page Range: 283-286
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Polish