Peculiarities of Creating Surnames from the Appelative Nebesa and Their Territorial Dissemination in Ukraine

Abstract

This article is devoted to the ways and means of creating surnames from the appellative nebesa and their territorial dissemination in Ukraine. It provides a review of the scientific works of the Ukrainian linguists on the theoretical and applied aspects of the Ukrainian surnames study (the works of I. Varchenko, V. Horpynych, A. Popovskiy, Yu. Pradid, Yu. Redko, M. Khudash, etc.), their lexicographic elaboration both in general (V. Demchenko and I. Lopushinsky, A. Zosimov, Yu. Redko, and others.), and in certain regions of Ukraine, in particular (G. Arkushyn, V. Horpynych, Yu. Novikova, P. Chuchka, and others). They served as the theoretical and methodological basis of the study.
 A review of the scientific papers by the Ukrainian scientists gives reasons to conclude that the surnames derived from the appellative nebesa, as well as other similar microsystems, were almost not studied in Ukrainian linguistic science, except for a few works by Y. Pradid.
 The study has identified a group of surnames derived from the appellative nebesa in the system of surnames in Ukraine, numbering a total of 22 surnames. However, only 4 out of 22 surnames became the basis for the creation of new surnames, and no new surnames were formed from the rest.
 The most common surname of the studied microsystem is the surname Nebesna (601 cases), and most of all derived surnames are formed from the surname Nebes (7 surnames).
 The analysis of the actual material gave grounds to assert that the main way of creating surnames derived from the appellative nebesa is the suffixation (10 surnames). Most often, the suffixes -yuk (3 cases), -k- (2 cases) are used to create new surnames. Eight female surnames are formed in the inflectional way from the stems of male surnames.
 The study findings argue that surnames derived from other names, double and rare surnames, surnames common in certain territories, surnames of social groups and some others require further research.