AGNOMENS AND NICKNAMES IN AROMANIAN ONOMASTICS

by Dumitru CARABAŞ

Abstract
The onomastic material that I will present shows us the richness, diversity and specificity of Aromanian anthroponymy. The agnomen is the most distinctive feature of Aromanian anthroponymy. Nicknames are spontaneous creations, relatively fortuitous, not caused by objective reasons. They are part of the precious human spirituality, are the proof of the perceptive nature and humor of a people, they
are testimonies of their way of living and thinking expressed in such a suggestive way.

In Aromanian onomastics, agnomens, named pârnoan͂i, are collective names, which show us once again that Aromanian anthroponymy incorporates elements of Greek, Slavic, Turkish or Albanian context in the middle of which it was developed in two stages: the early or profound and new or recent period. The recent period has not ended yet, and Aromanian onomastics is part of the Balkan world, whose
onomastic systems interact continuously, being in perpetual transformation.

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