%0 Journal Article %T §¢§ì§Ý§Ô§Ñ§â§ã§Ü§Ú §ã§â§Ö§Õ§ß§à§Ó§Ö§Ü§à§Ó§ß§Ú §Ý§Ú§é§ß§Ú §Ú§Þ§Ö§ß§Ñ, §à§Ò§â§Ñ§Ù§å§Ó§Ñ§ß§Ú §ã§ì§ã §ã§å§æ§Ú§Ü§ã -§à§ä§Ñ %J State and Problems of Bulgarian Onomastics %D 2013 %X The present article studies a short list of Old Bulgarian masculine proper names, witnessed in Greek and Bulgarian medieval sources from the 9th to the 12th century. These are one-stem personal names consisting of one proprial stem combined with the suffix -ota. Most of the stems are of Slavic origins, but non-Slavic elements can be witnessed too. Generally the names can be divided in two groups: personal names and probably nicknames %K Old Bulgarian^ medieval^ proper name(s)^ suffix -ota %U http://journals.uni-vt.bg/onom/eng/vol13/iss1/34