Anthroponyms in book scribes of Kazan region (16th-17th centuries)

Abstract

Regional written records are a valuable source for the study of nominal and onomastic vocabulary, their materials are important for a wide range of humanitarian and social sciences, including historical lexicology. At present time the task of inventory, registration, study and description of these source data is extremely urgent. The article presented the results of anthroponimics multiaspect research on the basis of a consolidated body of more than 880 Kazan region written business records of XVI-XVII centuries (with more than 1 million of word use): the peculiarities of calendar and non-calendar proper name use and their structure are analyzed, the regional specifics of onomastic material, its place in the analyzed sources, the historical and linguistic descriptiveness of anthroponymics, the opportunities and the prospects of obtained data use in the study of various types are revealed. The analysis of person naming patterns in involved records showed the predominance of twocomponent naming model. The findings results confirm the value of the dialect material for the detection and identification of onomastic vocabulary prototype words. The materials of Kazan region scribal descriptions (which are a massive census of Muscovite Russia for further taxation) allow to deepen the history of a nominal word existence; to identify appellatives not reflected in the historical dictionaries of Russian language.