LEXICO-SEMANTIC METHOD OF CREATING NICKNAMES OF THE RESIDENTS OF BOYKIVSHCHYNA

Nazar HODOVANETS,
Postgraduate Student, Department of Ukrainian language named after professor Ivan Kovalyk,
Ivan Franko National University of Lviv;
1 Universytetska St., Lviv 79001, Ukraine;
e-mail: nazar.hodovanets@lnu.edu.ua
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-9143-8353

Heading: IN THE WORLD OF PROPER NAMES
Language: Ukrainian

Abstract
The article analyzes the nicknames of the residents of Boykivshchyna, which are formed in a lexico-semantic way. A nickname is an unofficial human name that is assigned by nominators to a person or a group of people based on individual characteristics, kinship and affinity between the bearer and family members for the purpose of identification and specification. The lexico-semantic method of word formation is a type of non-morphological method of derivation, which consists in rethinking the meaning of a word without significantly changing its morpheme composition through lexical metonymization, condensation, metaphorization, transonymization. In this case, appellatives undergo the path of onymization to acquire the status of a proper name, onymous ones undergo transonymization. The choice of the region is due to a peculiar local anthroponymic system, namely the dominance of unofficial anthroponyms as identifiers of a person in oral folk discourse. In the studied historical and ethnographic area, individual, kinship, family-generic and collective-territorial names are used. According to the semantics of the creative foundations, surnames of Boyky are divided into names formed from female and male church-Christian names, nicknames and surnames of local residents, names and surnames of famous historical figures, characters of cartoons and films, literature. Also recorded are unofficial anthroponyms, which are motivated by the names of professions, occupations, nationality and ethnic origin, place of origin or residence. Worthy of attention are the names that correspond to the categories of “nomina personalia” (internal and external characteristics of a person, features of his speech), “nomina impersonalia” (names of animals, creatures, plants, their parts and fruits, household items, things, dishes and food products, parts of the human and animal body, natural phenomena, monetary units).
Key words: anthroponymy, nickname, surname, anthroponymic nickname, appellative nickname.

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LEGEND
Дрг – Drohobych district, Lviv region.
Самб. – Sambir district, Lviv region.
Стр. – Stryi district, Lviv region.