CAUCASIAN INFLUENCE IN THE FAMILY NAMES OF PEOPLE OF THE UKRAINIAN DNIEPER BASIN

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  О. Bubenok

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In this article attention is accented on the origin of suffixes -kо and -enko that are inalienable part of many patronimic Ukrainian family names. The author of this article accedes to those researchers who consider that the suffix -enko results from the suffix -ko, meaning “son”. However we can not believe that the patronimic suffix -ko originates from the Slavic diminutivals -ko or -ka. A hypothesis about the North-Caucasian origin of -ko in the Ukrainian family names looks more reasonable because in Circassian language the suffix -ko acts a role not only as a formative completion but also it saved the independent value: the word -ko means “a son”. However we can not agree with an idea that this borrowing got on territory of Ukraine in the late Middle Ages because in this period the writing sources did not fix a mass migration of the Circassians to Ukrainian Dnieper basin. Therefore a hypothesis about the suffix -ko as a relict of ancient Adygh-Caucasian sub-stratum is more attractive that confirmed by data of toponymy on Left-Bank Ukraine.

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BubenokО. (2015). CAUCASIAN INFLUENCE IN THE FAMILY NAMES OF PEOPLE OF THE UKRAINIAN DNIEPER BASIN. The World of the Orient, (3 (88), 5-14. https://doi.org/10.15407/orientw2015.03.005
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