Linguistic Specificity of Nicknames and Sobriquets of the Noble Popławski Family in Podlasie Region in the 16th and 17th Centuries

The topic of this article are the nicknames and sobriquets of the noble Popławski family in Podlasie region in the 16th and 17th centuries. The collected anthroponymic material was subjected to linguistic analysis, on the basis of which the onyms were divided into semantic and structural groups. One of the goals of the study was also to examine the popularity of individual structural types of anthroponyms in chronological terms. Attention was also paid to the problem of durability of individual structural models. The article presents exemplary material in the form of excerpted nicknames and sobriquets.