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the names, according to Kashgar are just male names, while
others are the names of the Khans, true warriors and known
poets. In his work, he also explains the meaning of the names of
days of a week. (3)
Since the XIX century, the etymology of anthroponyms of
Kumano-Polovtsian was studied by famous Russian Turkologists
and Orientalists such as L.Z. Budagov, B.B. Radlov, I.
Dobrodomov, K. Gronbich, N. Baskakov, S. Pletneva, and
others. Also, in the late twentieth beginning of the XXI century,
Kazakhstan Türkologists such as B. Makhpirov, M.E.
Alimbayev, and others researched too.
In his “Comparative dictionary Turkish-Tatar adverbs” L.Z
Budagov (4) gave a scientific explanation of the history of
several names of Kumano-Polovtsian origin. However, he gave
only linguistic comments on the name “Aydar” and on the
history of the origin of names “Alak, Barak, Kobyak-Kobek”.
One of the first researchers of the original history of the
Polovtsian names Turcologist V.V. Radlov (5) in his 4-languid
work “The experience of a dictionary of Turkic dialects” gives
several Polovtsian names such as Emyak, Coban, Samogur,
Tugortak-Tugorkan, with an explanation of their meaning.
According to other Turkic researchers, V. V. Radlov (gave the
best scientific and reliable explanation to above names without
referring stories of Polovtsian names. Soviet Turkologists
considered Kipchak onomastics without a relationship with
ideology, ethnopsychology, and mental characteristics. This
inevitably led to one-sided conclusions. The realities of today
require to look at the history of occurrence of the Polovtsian
names in the context of ethnogenesis. In our opinion, this will
lead us to the continuity of Old Kipchak and modern Kazakh
names. It cannot be determined only by lexical-semantic analysis
and systematization; you must pay close attention to social
factors - ethnic groups and social groups of the Polovtsian
community. Considering this effect, we will be able to more
accurately find out the origin of the Polovtsian names in the
etymology where ethnonyms, nicknames, names of totems are
present. (6-7)
Comparing Polovtsian names etymology, it is possible to
reconstruct the history of occurrence and characteristics of the
Polovtsian anthroponyms in the later Turkic period, reasonable
reliance on the social factor.
Examining the language of the ancestors, we define the degree of
closeness of the relationship between material and spiritual
aspects of their lives. In this regard, Professor K. Musaev (8)
said, “When we say that language is a storehouse of the history
of the people - its carrier primarily refers to the lexicon, which
directly responds to all changes in the lives of the nation. Neither
the phonetics or grammar cannot show us the living conditions
of the people, as the vocabulary”.
The study of names that exist in Kazakhstan has a long history,
during which the richest factual material was introduced into
scientific circulation, which received a detailed structural and
systemic description from the standpoint of the origin,
semantics, and functioning of anthroponyms of various types in
different types of discourse. The choice of a name is one of the
components of the construction of personality, during which the
limitations of the biological sex are overcome; ethnicity also
does not necessarily manifest itself through the name. In our
opinion, the personality of a person and his name are identical to
each other. Expanding the theory of identity, we would like to
note that in the Turkic ethnos a personal name carries an
additional burden. (9) The Turkic people believe that when
choosing a personal name, the parents lodge in their child an
energy program, which lays down the requirements and wishes
that determine their future. The identity of the name and destiny
of a person, and not only his personality, is the fundamental
thesis in the Turkic picture of the world. A proper name contains
a huge amount of cultural information, being a reflector of ethnic
and aesthetic attitudes that are established in a particular society.
(10) It is associated with different periods of socio-cultural life,
characterized by stereotypical ideas about the function of a name
in society, which reflects the events of the political or spiritual
life of the country. The principle of anthropocentrism is
preserved in the linguistic picture of the world even when a
person in itself does not mean anything when other value
reference points are chosen. A person’s own name is so widely
considered in various fields that further study of it is possible
only with the help of data accumulated by linguistics,
philosophy, sociology, and cultural studies. The ancient
composition of the Turkic groups in the ancient period with the
ancient Türkic, ancient Kipchak ethnic groups, the Oguz-
Kipchak tribes, the Ugrians, and later their close contacts with
the Volga Tatars, Bashkirs, Bukharians, and Kazakhs, who
significantly influenced their onomasticon. (11-12) The earliest
components are the ancient Türkic and Kipchak, Bulgarian-
Kipchak tribes. At the next stage of the evolution of
anthroponymy, the nations that were part of the Eastern
association such as the Tuvans, Yakuts, Khakas, and Mongols
had a great influence.
The presence of anthroponyms of Mongolian origin is
historically determined, since already at the beginning of the
17th century considerable masses of the western Mongols
occupied the territories along the banks of the Ob and Irtysh.
Culture is the name of the naming in a Turkic family
characterized by the preservation of traditions peculiar to the
Turks of the late XIX century. Modern anthroponymy is the
result of long-term linguistic and cultural activities of people.
That is why it is necessary to consider their complex nature of
anthroponymic research and a number of additional linguistic
and extralinguistic factors. The anthroponym is a component of
the lexical-semantic system of a language both by itself and as a
part of a unit interacting with a common vocabulary, often
retaining in its composition the foundations of the already lost
appellations. Anthroponymy provides a rich and unique material
for the study of relic word-formation models, ethnic history. (13)
The current approach to the study of language is so complex and
serious that it unites the efforts of linguists, psychologists, and
sociologists. The relevance of the study is matched with the
undying interest of people in names. As a link to all aspects of
the complex consideration of the place of a name in the structure
of the self-consciousness of the individual and the evolution of
the anthroponymycon, we put forward the principle of the
dialogue of the name. Thus, the relevance of the study is
determined by the fact that the focus is on the person as the
“creator of names” (the term of Yu.N. Karaulov). Appeal to the
anthroponymic system from the standpoint of human
consciousness, considering the connection of the person’s speech
and thinking activity with its extra-linguistic environment will
allow revealing the underlying processes of the dynamics of the
anthroponymic of Turkic peoples. National anthroponymy is a
complex system that unites a number of subsystems that are built
on the basis of a word-building, semantic or communicative
principle. It distinguishes such subsystems that are composed of
names united by the similarity or opposite of the values of their
bases. In their development, certain mental and linguistic
patterns of a general nature are manifested.
The ideal of all onomastic research is to present the entire
anthroponymic system completely, “in all its movement from the
beginnings to the perspectives. It is completely impracticable,
but it can be approached, on the one hand, by imposing
synchronous sections on one another, and on the other, by
linking the diachronically traceable changes in certain
anthroponymic phenomena.” Indeed, having different research
subjects within the same object, synchronous and diachronic
analyzes “complement each other and open up the opportunity to
see both the “momentary” life of a language and its life in time”.
Fundamental is the comment of V.A. Nikonov, “Only in the
perspective of time and space is the dynamics of names visible:
some tendencies are general, decisive, others are secondary and
subordinate, and some are directed against the flow.” (14) New
in the onomasticon of the people is not only the appearance of
names that were not there before but a change in the frequency
of the former names. Analysis of historical data contributes to a
better understanding of the anthroponymic system since it is the
result of long-term development. The presence of the historically
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