WAYS OF ORIGIN AND WAYS OF BORROWING ANTHROPONYMS IN THE KARACHAY-BALKAR LANGUAGE

Abstract

The authors investigate the main ways of origin and borrowing anthroponyms in the Karachay-Balkar language. Before considering them, it is stated that the anthroponymy of the Karachay-Balkars has been developing for many centuries, and, consequently, contacts with various tribes and nationalities have left their imprint on it. This position is proved by the fact of the existence in the lexical composition of the Karachay-Balkarian anthroponymy of an ancient stratum consisting of Turkic, substrate names, as well as a layer of words borrowed from the languages with which the Karachay and Balkars have not been in contact in recent times. Next, the names’ origin problems are studied and their separation is made based on the naming motives. The main Karachay-Balkar anthroponyms formation ways are investigated. On this basis, it is concluded that there is an inextricable connection between the Karachay-Balkar anthroponymy on the one hand and the ancient, self-sufficient and largely preserved Karachay-Balkar culture on the other.