VARIABILITY OF AVAR PERSONAL NAMES IN COMPARISON WITH RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH NAMES

Abstract

The article is dedicated to variability of Avar personal names in comparison with Russian and English personal names. The study shows the versatility of the phenomenon of the variability of anthroponyms in the studied languages. At the same time, different languages have different degrees of formation of variant forms of names. Among the languages that the researcher compares, the Russian language has greater possibilities for variability, than English. The Russian anthroponymicon has an extensive system of means that contribute to the emergence of variant names. As for the Avar anthroponymic system, in it the variant names are a late phenomenon, which emphasizes the conservativeness of the Avar namenik. Brief versions of Avar names do not contain those emotionally evaluated connotations that are characteristic of Russian names, so it is difficult for the speaker of the Avar language to understand the emotivity of numerous variants of Russian hypocoristic and qualitative names. The emotional color of the truncated variants of names can be completely different, and it is very difficult for speakers of Avar and English to determine it by the form of the derivative. Truncated versions of Avar names are socially fixed: they are used only in relation to children and young people and are extremely rare.