The article refers to anthroponyms of patronymic type found in birth records of St. Adalbert Parish in Poznańdating from the 17th and the 18th centuries. The author analyses grounds on which this category of onyms was created and discusses the repartition of suffixes -ic(z) and -owic(z)/-ewic(z). Attention is also drawn to the transition of anthroponyms with the suffixes in question from the patronymic to the structural surnames category, which was probably associated with the ennoblement of surnames that was observed in that period not only in Poznań alone.
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The article refers to anthroponyms of patronymic type found in birth records of St. Adalbert Parish in Poznań dating from the 17th and the 18th centuries. The author analyses grounds on which this category of onyms was created and discusses the repartition of suffixes -ic(z) and -owic(z)/-ewic(z). Attention is also drawn to the transition of anthroponyms with the suffixes in question from the patronymic to the structural surnames category, which was probably associated with the ennoblement of surnames that was observed in that period not only in Poznań alone.
The anthroponyms from the second half of the 17 th century have been excerpted from documents containing real estate tariffs, published in Sources to Warsaw History. The article deals with names reflecting the name-giving fashion of those times, highlights foreign elements indicative of the non-Polish ancestry of some burghers, as well as Slavonic names used in the nomination of Varsovians. It also covers surname classification groups, with particular regard to surname formation processes in the period in question. Basing on the analysis of anthroponyms from the second half of the 17 th century and on results of her earlier research into personal names, the author describes major transformations in the naming of Varsovians in the 17 th century.
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