Use of Nicknames in Ancient Turkic Sources and their Analysis

Abstract

Nicknames, as a secondary name, occupy a significant place in the lexical resource of the language. Anthroponymic units – person’s names, surnames, patronymics, nicknames, pseudonyms, nisbas -  names that developed from person’s place of birth, titles having been recorded also in the ancient sources of our language, have come down to us with the historcial development and alterations of their tradition. These units were revealed in stone incriptions, especially, in the manuscripts written during the reign of the Second Turkic Kaghanate. This small research is devoted to the linguistic analysis of nicknames and titles, their linguistic development and description in the manuscripts of the Second Turkic Kaghanate.