Similarities and dissimilarities of compound proper nouns between English and Uzbek Akhmedova Nargiza Alidjanovna, the English teacher
Kokand State Pedagogical Institute, Uzbekistan
P
roper nouns are word and word groups that express
names of substances, events, places, units of universe
and so on. Basing on these facts we can conclude that every
proper noun should bear besides purely semantic meaning
also cultural and spiritual features of the language. Lingvo-
cultural character of proper noun can be traced in all kind
names. In this content religious believes play a significant
role. This role is prominently seen in personnel names.
a) English people being Christianized mostly use Chris-
tian names which are taken mostly from the Biblical char-
acters or for honour of saints. In this content place names
stand dominating role in English. E. g.
St. Jones, Abbots- ford (town in British Columbia),
Church Hill (town in Vir-
ginia, US)
Besides that some place names are considered as bor-
rowings, although they belong to church or religious con-
tent. For instance old Welsh word «
ian » — «church» mostly
was used to form place names in changed form as
«Lan-». That»s why many of present day place names that are con-
sidered simple in fact are compound forms e. g. «
Lancaster- church place,
Landulph — church crossing» and so on.
But personnel names with compound structure of Chris-
tian origin occur very rare. Even existing compound names
have already lost their belonging to religious. E. g.
John
and
Jonson were originated from latin «
Ioan» , «
Maryanne (Mary+Ann ),
Joanne (Ioan+Ann ), Josephine (
Iosiph )
The religious impact on throponymy and anthroponomy
of Uzbek is also dominating. But differing from English Is-
lamic or religious names belong only persons, never to place
and geographical names. E. g.
—
Muhammadkarim (Muhammad+karim),
—
Saidibrohim (Said-«relative»+Ibrahim),
Saidjamol ,
—
Shohyunus (Shoh-«king»+Yunus),
—
Hayriddin (Hayr-«endowment» + «din» — «reli-
gion»)
—
Nuriddin (Nur-«light»+ «din»= Light of religion»)
b) Compound proper nouns belong to place and geo-
graphical names usually formed from words meaning de-