Folia onomastica Croatica, No. 12/13, 2003.
Original scientific paper
Traditional and innovative elements in Polish and Croatian anthroponymy
Aleksandra Cieślikowa
; Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN, Kraków, Polska
Abstract
Changes in the content and freqency of the anthroponyms of separate nations depend on the ideology, culture and history of a given nation. In the Croatian names coming from the older strata one should distinguish: the ancient Greek, Roman pre-Christian and post-Roman Christian strata. The variety of Croatian anthroponymic sources is also connected with three different religions practised in Croatia i.e. Catholicism, Orthodox Church, Islam. In Poland there are only two basic strata: personal names inherited from the proto-Slavic and Christian names. Also the names found in literary texts occasionally penetrated into both the Croatian and Polish antroponymies. The Trident Sinod played the role of a codifier that regulated the usage of names. The ideology of socialism varied the distribution of Croatian and Polish forenames, whereas the modern trends allow for giving similar forenames in both countries. Because of historical reasons, the surnames were translated, in Croatia more frequently than in Poland, e.g. during the Italianization of the Istrian Peninsula. Then, in the 19-th century, foreign surnames were replaced by Croatian ones. Polish surnames preserve the features of a prototypical surname i.e. the surnames ending in -ski, patronymics and those coming from nicknames. The traditional and innovative tendencies in the categories of nicknames and in contemporary unofficial anthroponyms appearing in mass media are also characterized in the article.
Keywords
given names; surnames; nicknames; tradition; innovation; Polish and Croatian anthroponymy
Hrčak ID:
22314
URI
Publication date:
28.3.2007.
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