SURNAME MICROSYSTEM «ZYMA» IN THE UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article examines the peculiarities of the creation of surnames derived from the appellative zyma, their regional prevalence in Ukraine. A review of the scientific works of domestic linguists on the theoretical and applied aspects of the study of Ukrainian surnames was made, which served as the theoretical and methodological basis of the proposed investigation. It is noted that such surnames were not the subject of description in Ukrainian linguistic science. The source of the factual material was the materials of the “Relatives” website, which records 876,000 surnames of residents of Ukraine, of which only 71 surnames belong to the “Zyma” surname microsystem. The purpose of the proposed article is to investigate the peculiarities of the formation of surnames of derived from the appellative zyma, their regional prevalence in Ukraine. Achieving this goal involves solving the following tasks: 1) to summarize the work of Ukrainian linguists on the problems of studying surnames of residents of Ukraine; 2) to single out a microgroup of surnames derived from from the appellative zyma; 3) describe the features of their creation; 4) characterize the prevalence of such surnames in the regions of Ukraine. The object of the study is the surnames of the surname microsystem «Zyma», the subject is their word-forming features and regional distribution. The descriptive method and its main methods are used as the main ones in the article: inventory and systematization of language material in synchrony. The theoretical and methodological basis of the investigation was the works of Ukrainian linguists, who researched the surnames of the residents of Ukraine. The conducted analysis shows that the most common surname of the surname microsystem “Zyma” is the surname Zyma (2,508 speakers), and the most derived surnames are formed from the appellative Zyma (18 surnames). The most common ways of creating surnames of these microgroup are suffixal (40 surnames) and inflectional (19 surnames). At the end of the article, it is noted that the problem of origin, peculiarities of creation and distribution in the territory of Ukraine of surnames derived from other names, rare and merged surnames and some other aspects still need to be studied.