Methods of formation of simple personal names in Tuvan

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25178/nit.2020.1.7

Keywords:

onomastics; Tuvan language; Tuva; personal name; lexico-semantical method; morphological method; affix; anthropofomant

Abstract

The article presents an overview of the most widespread methods of forming simple personal names, or anthroponyms, in Tuvan language.

The sources for the study were over 500 personal names collected by the author in 2019 in the course of linguistic expedition to Mongolian Tuvans (sum Tsengel, Bayan Ölgii aimag, and sum Buyant, Khovd aimag), as well as in several rayons of Tuva: Mongun-Taigin, Ovyur, Bay-Tangin, Barun-Khemchik and Dzun-Khemchik. The author also used entries on personal names from the archives of her expeditions for the previous twenty years.

Personal names have been found to fall into two groups: simple productive and simple non-productive. The latter were formed by the lexico-semantical method from common nouns belonging to a variety of semantic groups. The former much larger, group was formed morphologically, by adding to the stem one of the plethora of affixes in accordance to a particular model, 15 of which have been identified.

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Published

04.03.2020

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Сувандии Н. Д. Способы образования простых личных имен тувинцев [Электронный ресурс] // Новые исследования Тувы. 2020, № 1. URL: https://nit.tuva.asia/nit/article/view/911 (дата обращения: дд.мм.гг.). DOI: 10.25178/nit.2020.1.7

Suvandii N. D. Methods of formation of simple personal names in Tuvan. The New Research of Tuva. 2020, № 1 [online] Available at: https://nit.tuva.asia/nit/article/view/911(access date ...). DOI: 10.25178/nit.2020.1.7

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Author Biography

Nadezhda D. Suvandii, Tuvan State University

Candidate of Philology, Dean, Faculty of Philology, Tuvan State University.

Postal address: 13 Pedagogicheskaya St., 667004 Kyzyl, Russian Federation.

Tel.: +7 (923) 268-93-69.

E-mail: suvandiin@mail.ru