МАТРОНІМІЧНІ ПРІЗВИЩА(НА МАТЕРІАЛІ УКРАЇНСЬКИХ ВАРІАНТІВХРИСТИЯНСЬКИХ ІМЕН)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the methods of creating matronymic surnames, the most common derivative bases of which are the Ukrainian variants of the female Christian names Maria, Iryna, Elena, Melania, Evdokia, Paraska, from which a large part of the surnames of the inhabitants of Ukraine are formed, although the most popular in Ukraine are the names: Maria (2 076 561 women), Hanna (1 723 839 women), Valentina (1 267 461 women), Olga (1 203 052 women), and Galina (1 150 500 women). The most productive method of creating matronymic surnames was determined to be suffixation: out of 139 studied matronymic surnames, 124 were formed by the suffix method, while 7 were formed by the unaffixed method, and 8 by other methods (adding the inflection –o to the base; identity of the surname of the first name). Comparative characteristics of microsystems of anthroponyms “Matronymic surnames” and “Patronymic surnames” allowed us to draw conclusions: the majority of surnames originate from male names and only one in four – from female ones; the compared microsystems of anthroponyms have common and specific suffix formants for each of them. 27 suffixes are used to create surnames from male names, 16 suffixes – from female names, but only 4 of them are typical for creating surnames only from female names, while other 12 suffixes are common for creating surnames from male and female names. The study also confirms the opinion, previously expressed by Ukrainian linguists, that the vast majority of surnames (both matronymic and patronymic) that come from Ukrainian variants of Christian names are formed with the help of the suffixes –енк- (-єнк-) and –ук (-юк). According to the frequency analysis, suffixes -енк- (-єнк-) form the word-forming structure of 45 surnames, while suffixes -ук (-юк) – 39 surnames.