Last Names Derived from Woodworking Terminology

Abstract

The ethnogenesis space of the Romanian people knows the most varied landforms:mountain, hills, plains. What is noteworthy is that no matter what form of relief we relateto, the forest has been present everywhere. The specific terminology of the forest andof all that means the processing of wood in order to obtain whatever necessary for manwas a source of enrichment of the Romanian anthroponymic system. In this article, theauthor capitalized on the information coming from the book “Traditional occupations onthe territory of Romania”, vol. 4, by Gheorghe Iordache, and from the AnthroponymicDatabase of Romania, established at the Onomastic Research Laboratory of the Facultyof Letters, University of Craiova, in 1994. The identified last names, totaling 180, arepresented with the frequency recorded by region and county