Open AccessNĚMECKÁ PŘÍJMENÍ V PŘÍHRANIČNÍ OBLASTI JIŽNÍCH ČECH A JEJICH SÉMANTICKO-MOTIVAČNÍ TYPY
Author(s) -
Alena Jaklová
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
acc journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1803-9790
pISSN - 1803-9782
DOI - 10.15240/tul/004/2021-3-004
Subject(s) - etymology , german , ethnic group , section (typography) , relation (database) , population , point (geometry) , history , linguistics , genealogy , ethnology , humanities , geography , sociology , demography , anthropology , art , philosophy , mathematics , computer science , geometry , database , operating system
This article analyses German surnames from the point of view of their motivation and classification into respective semantic-motivational types. The analysis is based on a corpus of data compiled at the beginning of the 21st century from the archive records containing surnames of inhabitants of the towns of Prachatice, Volary, Vimperk and Kašperské Hory. All of these towns are situated close to the German border and, until the mid-1940s, had predominantly been inhabited by German population. The final section of the article identifies the most frequent semantic-motivational types of German surnames currently used by Czechs in the area explored. The article also explains the etymology and motivation of these surnames in relation to the history of the region and to ethnic groups inhabiting the area since the Middle Ages.