Nicknames and bynames from Vadu Izei, Maramureș county

The present paper analyses, from semantic and structural points of view, the nicknames/bynames from Vadu Izei, Maramureș county. Our objective is to highlight the principles that underlie the personal denomination and the dynamics of anthropo­nymy in the researched community. The corpus of the paper was extracted from the monograph Vadu Izei: identity card, signed by Ioan Borlean (2020). For a diachronic view on the popular denominative system in Vadu Izei, the current nick­names/bynames were compared with the material extracted from the answers to Chestionarul IV. Nume de loc și nume de persoană [Questionnaire IV. Name of place and name of person], 1930 (from Chestionarele Muzeului Limbii Române [Question­naires of the Museum of Romanian Language], indirect surveys by correspondence, carried out between 1922–1936), completed by the teacher Teodor Utan.