Фамилното име Чаев и някои cродни

• Authors: Людвиг Селимски

Title variants

RU

Familnoto ime Chaev i nyakoi crodni

EN

The surname Чаев and the cognate ones

• Languages of publication: RU

Abstracts

EN

There are attempts to derive the surname Чаев from a non attested first name *Чайо, allegedly derived from Old-Bulg. ÷àÿò¸, ÷à« ‘wait (for)’. In fact, the surname Чаев has its origin in the south-west dialectal variant *чайа (with ч instead of к’) from the well-known кехая or кея/кия ‘village crier; overseer; chief shepherd’ (a borrowing from the Turkish dial. kehaya and/or liter. kâhya). The author argues that the surnames Киов, Кяев and Кяйчев have a similar origin, which has also been explained in a wrong manner so far.

Keywords

EN

onomastics

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta onomastica
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 403-407
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

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Людвиг Селимски

• Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v. v. i., Letenská 123/4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic