Про ім’я Ева: адаптація, ідентифікація, мотиви
Authors: Фаріон Ірина 
Published: December 2019

The issue of the origin and adaptation of the anthroponymic vocabulary in the Ukrainian language is of exceptional importance in terms of their both political and purely linguistic nature. It is the synthesis of the extralinguistic and intralinguistic factors, that allows anthroponymic vocabulary disclose the political course of the nation and reveal the language capacity to transform the borrowed material, adopt it to its own purposes and assert it as native.

The subject of this research is a symbolic biblical Old Hebrew name Eva analezed from the standpoint of the Ukrainian socio-historical processes, with an emphasis on the perspective of clarifying its public perception, the reasons for naming, phonetic and word-formation adaptation to the national Ukrainian linguistic tradition.

The purpose of the article is to reveal the sources of borrowing the name Eva and its functioning in the first symbolic biblical Ukrainian texts; to identify its uniqueness among other commonly used names of Old Hebrew origin; to analyze phonetic and morphological and word-formation adaptation of this name as newly-acquired Ukrainian identification; to elucidate the reasons for naming and the peculiarities of the public perception of this biblical name. 

Thus, the Old Hebrew names (20%, or one fifth of our active anthroponymycom), mostly in Old Slavonic (later in Church Slavonic), have completely “melted” in the “furnace” of our language and became signs of our self-sufficient culture and identity. It is evidenced by their phonetic and morphological form, word-formation structure and the number of derivatives in different layers of the onym vocabulary, from anthroponyms to toponyms, oikonyms, etc.     

It is absolutely pointless to associate the long ago adapted in our language Old Hebrew names with the ethnicity of any person. Such commonly met public perception is a demonstration of political manipulations, confined social thought, lack of knowledge about the laws of foreign anthroponymic substratum functioning in our language.

 

Key words: anthroponym Eva, adaptation of anthroponymic vocabulary, national identification, reasons for naming, public perception.

 

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