Hybrydyzacja nazewnictwa mniejszości narodowych jako zjawisko typowe na pograniczach etniczno-kulturowych

Abstract

The process of the creation of surnames of national minorities on the ethnic and cultural borderlands has a common value - the high participation of hybrid formations. In the area of previous Podlasie in the greater Slavonic environment (Polish, Byelorussian, Ukrainian) the onomastics of national rninorities settled there (Lithuanian, Tatar, Jew and German) was subordinated to the assimilative processes. The nations, which settled on the lingually and culturally foreign area, used the model structures of last names of public prestige. Finally, there were hybrid formations which have in their base strange appellations or names specific to a given nation and Slavonic suffixes, especially -ski, -owicz. German surnames were adopted in the least degree because of the late colonization.