This material contribution dealing with anthroponyms in Central Moravian region in the 15th and 16th centuries is loosely based on the author’s earlier article about medieval personal names in Moravia in the 17th and 18th centuries. Material obtained from the regional monograph is the bases for author’s personal reflection on the development of anthroponymical paradigm in Moravian countryside.
The Dialectological Dictionary of Moravia by František Bartoš is an important source not only for dialectology but also for onomastics. Based on this material the author suggest a new possible way how to make a classifier of surnames. In the first part he works with surnames in the Bartoš’s Dictionary as seen from the onomasiologic point of view. The second part deals with the potentials of a new surname classifier based on the Moravian material.
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