Lidová etymologie a "hanlivá" příjmení

• Authors: Žaneta Dvořáková

Title variants

EN

Folk etymology and "pejorative" surnames

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

There are many Czech surnames motivated by parts of human or animal body. Some of them are connected with sexual or fecal activities. These surnames are pejorative and many of them were changed during the time and disappeared from our onymic system. This article is focused on surnames which are meant to be obscene only by a folk etymology but their real origin is different and they have nothing to do with vulgar common nouns. However, the pressure of the folk etymology is so strong that many people rather change their surname not to be objects of jokes and notes about their names.

Keywords

CS

příjmení; lidová etymologie; hanlivá, vulgární, pejorativní příjmení; přejmenování

EN

surnames; folk etymology; obscene, vulgar, pejorative family names; renaming

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta onomastica
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 59
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 42-53
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Žaneta Dvořáková

• Acta onomastica, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic