Podlachian House of Poletyło in the Light of Anthroponymy (16th–17th Century)

Abstract

In the present article, there were linguistically analysed the surname, names, sobriquets, and nicknames of members of the boyar (then noble) House of Poletyło, which were used in the process of anthroponymic nomination from the beginning of the 16th to the end of the 17th century. On the basis of the conducted research, there was concluded that variations of the Poletyło/Poletyłowski family name were still observed in the second half of the 17th century. What is more, the onomastic analysis revealed the wealth of names which were used to anthroponymic identification of the members of the family. The names, which were discussed in the article, were used both in the East-Slavic and West-Slavic cultural settings. It should be noticed, however, that contrary to the significant number of listed names, the number of confirmed sobriquets and nicknames of the members of the family in question was low.