『몽골비사』에 반영된 여성 인명(人名)의 언어인류학적 연구

초록

In linguistic anthropology human names provide various cultural categories, such as social identity, gender, status, taboo, etc. In many societies women’s names are differentiated from men’s names and thus women’s names often contain specific characters and furthermore symbolic substances associated with women. On the bases of this aspect, I investigate women’s names inside The Secret History of the Mongols. Inside The Secret History of the Mongols all together 47 women’s names are mentioned and I intend to analyse these by folklore taxonomy. These 47 women’s names consist of single names as well as names with additional terms which are attached to these names. For example, the suffix ‘-jin’ and ‘-čin’ indicate women’s characters and some honorific terms (e.g. üǰin, beki, qatun) are also attached to women’s names. In addition, kinship terms (e.g. mother, little mother, grandmother, wife) are used with women’s names in order to clarify their social role and status. Several distinctive cultural elements can be found throughout the investigation of women’s names inside The Secret History of the Mongols. Firstly, some women’s names such as ‘Barɤuǰin-ɤo’a’, ‘Qo’a<ɤ>čin emegen’, ‘Qoriǰin qatun’ show that double cultural substances of women’s characters are embedded into those names. Secondly, particularly women’s names like ‘Mongɤolǰin-ɤo’a gergei’ and ‘Boroɤčin-ɤo’a gergei’ even present triple cultural elements and symbols.

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