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The article touches on the problems of how religious names function in Polish anthroponymy. It includes analysis of how the name Maria functions as a religious name. Religious names of 19 Polish women’s religious orders, all assigned between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, were analysed (includes lists of the names of the religious orders in which sisters changed their names, and where the...
Personal names usually contain some information which falls within the broad content of culture. They are often imbued with information on history, religion, social organization, mentality, values, preferences or symbols. Chinese naming practices do not restrict the inventory of possible given names, and as based upon characteristics of the Chinese culture, Chinese language and Chinese writing system,...
The article is devoted to the consideration of names in terms of language fashion. The purpose of the article is to study the influence of fashion on the formation and development of the family system of the modern Belarusian area. To achieve this goal, the author analyzes the anthroponymic material of the business literature of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the 14th to the 17th centuries, as...
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