Onomastics or onomatology is the study of proper name s of all kinds and the origins of names. The words are from the Greek language Greek onomastikos , of or belonging to naming ref http www.perseus.tufts.edu hopper text?doc Perseus 3Atext 3A1999.04.0057 3Aentry 3Do 29nomastiko 2Fs , Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek English Lexicon , on Perseus project ref ref http www.etymonline.com index.php?search onomastics&searchmode none Online Etymology Dictionary ref and onomatologia , from noma name . ref http www.perseus.tufts.edu hopper text?doc Perseus 3Atext 3A1999.04.0057 3Aentry 3Do 29 2Fnoma , Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek English Lexicon , on Perseus project ref toponymy Toponymy or toponomastics , the study of place names, is one of the principal branches of onomastics. Anthroponomastics is the study of personal names. See also American Name Society Anthroponymy English Place Name Society Etymology , the study of word origins Extinction of surnames George R. Stewart , the man who humanized onomastics http www.wtsn.binghamton.edu onoma Default.htm Stewart Guild of One Name Studies Hydronyms International Council of Onomastic Sciences Jaroslav Rudnyckyj , a Ukrainian Canadian linguist and lexicographer with a specialty in etymology and onomastics Kazimierz Rymut , linguist and lexicographer with a specialty in etymology and onomastics the study of proper Poles Polish names . naming convention onym , listing the technical kinds of names Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland Toponymy Mononymous persons References reflist External links wiktionary dmoz Science Social Sciences Linguistics Onomastics http www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk Lexicon of Greek Personal Names , a Major Research Project of the British Academy, Oxford, contains over 35,000 published Greek names. Category Onomastics Category Folklore Category Lexicography Category Greek loanwords Category Auxiliary sciences of history be ... more details
notability date November 2011 unreferenced date November 2011 Infobox journal title Questions of Onomastics cover editor Elena Berezovich discipline Onomastics language Russian former names abbreviation publisher Ural University Press country Russia frequency Biannually history 2004 present openaccess license impact impact year website http www.ruslang.ru agens.php?id onomastica link1 link1 name link2 link2 name JSTOR OCLC LCCN CODEN ISSN 1994 2400 eISSN Questions of Onomastics Russian is a Russian peer review peer reviewed academic journal that publishes articles on onomastics . It was established in 2004 by the Ural State University and the Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences as a periodical dedicated to linguistic studies of proper noun proper names . The journal has regularly published two issues per year. It covers problems of theoretical, regional, and applied onomastics and terminology . It also publishes reviews of publications in onomastics. The majority of articles are dedicated to Slavic languages Slavic , Uralic languages Uralic , Turkic languages Turkic , Romance languages Romance , and Germanic languages Germanic onomastics, toponymy , anthroponymy , and other classes of proper names, but it is open to research from other domains. The most notable authors of the journal are Aleksandr Matveyev , Yevgeny Khelimsky , Olga Molchanova , Edgar Hoffmann , Eva Buchi , Olga Mladenova , Tatiana Toporova , Aleksandar Loma . The first editor in chief of Questions of Onomastics was Aleksandr Matveyev , until his death in 2010. He was succeeded by Elena Berezovich . External links Official 1 http www.ruslang.ru agens.php?id onomastica Category Linguistics journals Category Publications established in 2004 Category Biannual journals Category Russian language journals ru ... more details
Onomastics is an important source of information on the early Celts , as Greco Roman historiography recorded Celtic names before substantial written information becomes available in any Celtic language. Like Germanic names , early Celtic names are often dithematic. suffix rix ruler Vercingetorix Orgetorix Dumnorix c.f. Gaelic Donald Cingetorix suffix maris marus great Britomaris Indutiomarus Viridomarus Some information on prehistoric Celtic polytheism can be drawn from names in Irish mythology Irish and Welsh mythology , where character often bear names that continue older theonyms Rhiannon , from Rigantona Great Queen Gwenhwyfar , from Uind Seibr White Phantom Brigid , from Brigantia the High one Lugh and Lleu Llaw Gyffes Lleu , cognate with Gaulish Lugus See also Celtic toponymy Irish name Germanic onomastics External links http www.behindthename.com nmc cel anci.php Ancient Celtic names behindthename.com http www.s gabriel.org names tangwystyl gaulish Name Constructions in Gaulish Celts Category Onomastics Category Celtic names pl Imiona celtyckie ... more details
Macedonian language The Macedonian language Macedonian onomastics lang mk , makedonska onomastika is part of the Macedonistics that studies the names, surnames and nicknames of the Macedonian language . This is relatively new linguistic discipline. In Macedonia, and in the Macedonistics in general, it developed during the 19th century, where the first few research results have been provided. The Onomastics for a long period of time has been considered as part of various scientific disciplines, such as geography , history or ethnography , until it became a discipline on its own in the 20th century. The Macedonian Onomastics, generally speaking, is divided into toponomastics and anthroponomastics . ref name Cite book last first coauthors , , title editor publisher location date 2008 isbn 978 9989 0 0662 7 language Macedonian ref Division The onomastics is divided into two large categories, which in turn include several different subcategories or disciplines. The two basic categories of the Macedonian onomastics are ref name Cite book authors , , , title publisher ... Toponomastics The toponomastics is a branch of the onomastics that studies the Toponymy ... , Polog , Pelagonia , Osogovo etc. Onomastics of places , a scientific discipline that studies ... Anthroponomastics The anthroponomastics is the second large discipline of the Onomastics. The Anthroponomastics ... zborko , enkar and many others. References reflist Related Macedonian language Onomastics ... language and onomastics in a great Slavic encyclopaedia at dnevnik.com in Macedonian. Category Macedonian grammar Category Macedonian language Category Onomastics Macedonian Category Macedonian ... more details
Adding a nisbat lang ar nisbah relation is the practice of adding a specifier as part of an Arabic name , indicating the person s place of origin, tribal affiliation or ancestry. The practice has been adopted in Iranian name s, where the nisbat sometimes became a surname . Original use main Arabic grammar Nisba A nisba relation is a grammatical term referring to the suffixation of masculine iyy , feminine iyyah to a word to make it an adjective. As an example, the word Arabiyy means Arab, related to Arabic, Arabian . Nisbated forms are very common in Arabic names. Use in onomastics Arabic names do not include family names or surnames , but rather patronymics nasab , where the name of the person is followed by the name of his father, usually linked by ibn or bin son . Patronymics may be long as they may include all known forefathers. When a name is simplified to one or two ancestors, it may become confused with other persons names, so an additional specifier, a nisbat , may be added as an attribute. A nisba is usually prefixed by al the and may be to almost anything Nisba to a place Al Baghdadi, related to the city of Baghdad . ex. Al Khatib al Baghdadi , Junayd al Baghdadi . Al Masri, related to Egypt . ex. Taher al Masri , Abu Hamza al Masri . Al Hijazi, related to the region of Hijaz in Saudi Arabia . ex. Amal Hijazi , Farouk Hijazi . Nisba to a tribe of clan Al Tamimi, from the tribe or clan of Bani Tamim. ex. Modher Sadeq Saba al Tamimi, Talib al Suhail al Tamimi , Alaa al Tamimi . Al Qurashi, from the tribe or clan of Quraish. ex. ibn Kathir ibn Kathir Al Qurashi , Ab Uthm n Sa d ibn Hakam al Qurashi . Al Ta i, from the tribe of Tai . ex. Hatem at Ta i . Nisba to a person Al Maliki, related to Malik ibn Anas . ex. Nouri al Maliki . Al Farouqi, related to Umar Farooq the Great . ex. Ismail al Faruqi . Multiple nisba One can have more than one nisba, one can be related to a city, a clan, a profession and a person at the same time. Examples include Ibn ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 DAUM , the Institute for Dialectology , Onomastic s and Folklore Research in Ume , is a Sweden Swedish governmental archive bureau which collects, preserves, works up and provides information about dialects, place names, folklore culture and local history. DAUM is part of the Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore . DEFAULTSORT Institute For Dialectology, Onomastics And Folklore Research In Umea Category Government agencies of Sweden Dialectology Category Swedish culture Culture stub Gov stub Sweden org stub ... more details
The Arabic language Arabic word nisba also transcribed as nisbah or nisbat may refer to Arabic grammar Nisba Nisba , a suffix used to form adjectives, or the adjective resulting from this formation Nisbat onomastics , a nisbat used as an element in an Arabic name disambiguation ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Anthroponomastics or anthroponymy , a branch of onomastics , is the study of anthroponyms Greek language Gk. anthropos , man , onoma , name , the names of human being s. The subdivisions of anthroponymy include Given name s Surname s Clan name disambiguation Clan name s Matronym s Patronym s Teknonyms Nickname s Ethnonym s endonym Autonym s Endonym s Exonym s See also wiktionary onym Suffix onym Toponymy Personal name Onomastics Category Names Category Onomastics Ling stub ar be be x old bg ca Antropon mia cs Antroponomastika de Anthroponymie es Antroponimia eu Antroponimia fr Anthroponymie gl Antroponimia ko id Antroponimastik lv Antropon mija lt Asmenvardis mk nl Antroponymie pl Antroponimia pt Antropon mia ru stq Persoonenoomen tt tr Antroponim uk wa Antroponimeye zh ... more details
The American Name Society , founded in 1951, is a learned society founded to promote onomastics , the study of names and naming practices, both in the United States and abroad and to investigate cultural insights, settlement history, and linguistic characteristics revealed in names. ref cite web url http www.wtsn.binghamton.edu ans title Binghamton.edu ref Its publications include The Ehrensperger Report and Names A Journal of Onomastics . Notable members include founding member George R. Stewart , members A. Ross Eckler, Jr. , Fritz L. Kramer executive secretary treasurer , and Wolfe 585, Senior Hubert Blaine Wolfe schlegel stein hausen berger dorff, Sr. ref cite book author Eckler, Albert Ross, Jr. title Names and Games Onomastics and Recreational Linguistics An Anthology of 99 Articles Published in Word Ways, the Journal of Recreational Linguistics from February 1968 to August 1985 place Lanham, MD publisher University Press of America year 1986 isbn 978 0 8191 5350 0 authorlink A. Ross Eckler, Jr. ref ref cite journal pages 87 88 journal Names A Journal of Onomastics author Kramer, Fritz L. publisher American Name Society year 1960 title Names Not Brief ref References reflist External links http www.wtsn.binghamton.edu ans American Name Society home page Category Linguistic societies ling stub es American Name Society ... more details
Al Zurqani , al Dhurqani or just Zurqani is an Arabic nisbat onomastics nisbat . It is usually added at the end of names as a specifier. The list includes Muhammad al Zurqani Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al Zurqani Abd al Baqi al Zurqani d. 1099 AH surname Zurqani Category Nisbats ... more details
Unreferenced date June 2008 Onomancy haplological for Onomamancy or Onomatomancy is divination based on a subject s given name , popular in the Late Middle Ages , usually following practices of Gematria . See also Onomastics Arithmomancy Category Numerology Category Divination Category Given names Onomancy occult stub de Onomantie it Onomanzia ... more details
Expand French Attraction paronymique date March 2009 Confusing date March 2009 Unreferenced date March 2009 In etymology , generally in onomastics , a paronymic attraction is the alteration of a word on its paronym . See also Barbarism linguistics Lemma morphology Morphology linguistics False etymology ling morph stub Category Linguistic morphology fr Attraction paronymique ... more details
The Arabic language Arabic Nisbat onomastics nisbah attributive title Al Nawawi lang ar denotes an origin from Nawa, Syria . Yahya ibn Sharaf al Nawawi was a Sunni Muslim author on Fiqh and hadith. Nawawi may also refer to Aznil Nawawi , Malaysian actor Ihab Ali Nawawi , Egyptian al Qaeda member surname hndis Category Nisbats Nawawi Category Arabic language surnames ... more details
Kindi may refer to The Arabic language Arabic Nisbat onomastics nisbat Al Kindi disambiguation Al Kindi which indicates affiliation with the Arabian Kinda tribe. Kindi Department , one of the 13 Departments of Burkina Faso departments of the Boulkiemd Boulkiemd Province of Burkina Faso . Kindi, Burkina Faso Kindi , the capital of Kindi Department Kindergarten Kindi vessel Kindi , a bell metal vessel usually found in traditional Kerala homes. disambig ... more details
Eriugena is an adjective meaning Irish lit. born in Ireland . It was typically used in the early Middle ages as a surname when it was common to distinguish people by labeling them according to where they were born or lived. It has been notably applied to the following philosophy philosophers Augustine Eriugena Johannes Scotus Eriugena In modern times it is often mistaken as a family name . See also Onomastics disambig ... more details
Hanbali is an Arabic Nisbat onomastics nisbat that means of Hanbal , implying a follower of the Hanbali Madhhab . People using it in their names it include Diya al Din al Maqdisi See also Al Shafi i disambiguation Arabic name http en.wikipedia.org w index.php?title Special 3APrefixindex&from Hanbali&namespace 0 Wikipedia pages beginning with Hanbali Category Surnames Category Hanbali Category Nisbats ... more details
The Institute for Language and Folklore , lang sv Institutet f r spr k och folkminnen , but commonly referred to by the acronym SOFI , is a Swedish government agency with the purpose of studying and collecting materials concerning dialects, folklore and onomastics . In June 2006 the Swedish government decided to centralize the Swedish language preservation institutes, starting on the July 1, 2006. The former name, Swedish Institute for Dialectology, Onomastics and Folklore Research lang sv Spr k och folkminnesinstituet was changed to the current name. The institute consists of several, originally independent, units, located in different Swedish university towns. The central unit of the institute is located in Uppsala , with other departments located to Lund , Gothenburg , Ume and Stockholm . The institute is, among other things, responsible for the ongoing publication of Sveriges ortnamn a dictionary of all Swedish placenames and Sveriges medeltida personnamn a dictionary of medieval Swedish personal names . Units of the Institute Administrative Unit Uppsala Department of Dialectology, Uppsala Dialektavdelningen, DA Folklore Department, Uppsala Folkminnesavdelningen, FA Phonogram Unit, Uppsala Fonogramenheten Department of Onomastics, Uppsala Namnavdelning, NA . Archive for Dialects, Placenames and Folklore in Gothenburg Dialekt , ortnamns och folkminnesarkivet i G teborg, DAG Archive for Dialects and Placenames in Lund Dialekt och ortnamnsarkivet i Lund, DAL Swedish Language Council Spr kr det Institute for Dialectology, Onomastics and Folklore Research in Ume Archive for Dialects, Placenames and Folklore in Ume Dialekt , ortnamns och folkminnesarkivet i Ume , DAUM External links http www.sofi.se SOFI , main website http www.dal.lu.se dal DAL http www.sofi.se DAG DAG http www.sofi.se daum DAUM http www.sofi.se SOFIU smp smpinne.htm Sveriges medeltida personnamn , online edition A H http www.sofi.se SOFIU oaupubl.htm Sveriges ortnamn , list of published fascicles ... more details
Fargh n lang fa , meaning from Fargh na , or Al Farghani is a common surname in Central Asia Central and Western Asia and a was a common nisbat onomastics nisbat in the medieval Islamic world. It may refer to the following Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kath r al Fargh n , also known as Alfraganus, a 9th century astronomer Sayf i Fargh n , a 13th century Persian poet Sa d al d n Mo ammad Fargh n , a 13th century sufi author disambig ... more details
Al Shafi i lang ar is an Arabic Nisbat onomastics nisbah that means of Shafi i , implying a follower of the Shafi i madh hab . Muhammad ibn Idris al Shafi i was a Muslim jurist and founder of the Shafi i school of fiqh or Madh hab which is named after him. Al Shafi i may also refer to Al Ghazali Al Nawawi Imam Al Nawawi See also Hanbali nesbat DEFAULTSORT Shafi i Category Nisbats Shafi i ... more details
Papyrus Hood is a hieratic papyrus from the time of Twenty first dynasty of Egypt 21st Dynasty Pharaoh Amenemope pharaoh Amenemope , 993 984 BC. The papyrus is at the British Museum , no. BM EA 10202 , and is a cursive hieratic manuscript which contains a copy of The Onomasticon of Amenope . ref Parkinson, p. 61. ref This Third Intermediate Period of Egypt Third Intermediate Period work is known from eight other fragmentary copies, and relates back to the late New Kingdom era. It is notable that the papyrus is an Onomastics onomasticon , but it also lists words, that are not known from any other sources, yet their meanings are known, i.e. snow . See also Amenemope pharaoh Amenemope Onomastics Prosopography Onomasticon of Amenope References reflist Parkinson, R., et alia, Cracking Codes, the Rosetta Stone , and Decipherment, Berkeley University of California Press, c. 1999 , p. 61. Category Ancient Egyptian literature Category Egyptian papyri ancient Egypt stub ... more details
Kazimierz Rymut was born 18 December 1935 in Chech y near Ropczyce S dzisz w County Ropczyce died 14 November 2006 in Krak w , buried in pl Brzezie powiat krakowski Brzezie , near Zabierz w . Professor doctor hab., Onomastics onomist , historian of languages, editor. Organizer of academic life and educator of many Polish Onomastics onomists . Decorated with the Gold Cross of Merit and Order of Cyril and Metodius. He studied at the Jagiellonian University in Krak w , where in 1968 he received his PhD. He became a professor at the University in 1972. He was long standing Director of the Polish Language Institute Polish Academy of Sciences PAN and Chief of the Polish Onomastic Department, chairman of the Slavonic Onomastic Commission in the International Committee of Slavs, chairman of the Commission of Location Names and Physiographical Objects in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration. Bibliography Kazimierz Rymut, Nazwiska Polak w. S ownik historyczno etymologiczny, Krak w 1999 Kazimierz Rymut, Nazwy Miast Polski, Ossolineum, Wroc aw 1987 Kazimierz Rymut, Bibliografia onomastyki polskiej, 1991 2000 http www.herby.com.pl herby indexslo.html Kazimierz Rymut. The dictionary of surnames in current use in Poland 2nd edition, 1992 , online See also Onomastics List of Poles Linguistics List of Poles Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Rymut, Kazimierz ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1935 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 2006 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Rymut, Kazimierz Category Alumni of Jagiellonian University Category Polish linguists Category 1935 births Category 2006 deaths de Kazimierz Rymut pl Kazimierz Rymut pt Kazimierz Rymut ru , ... more details
Orphan date October 2011 Use mdy dates date June 2011 Elena Lvovna Berezovich lang ru , born 1966 is a Russian linguist known for her works in onomastics , etymology and ethnolinguistics . She is currently Professor at the Department of Russian language and General Linguistics of the Ural Federal University Yekaterinburg . Biography Elena Berezovich was born in Yekaterinburg in 1966 , she graduated, in 1988 , from the Ural State University . In 1992 she defended her PhD thesis Semantic microsystems in Russian toponymy . After the defense, in 1999 , of her habilitation thesis Russian degree of doctor nauk Russian toponymy in ethnolinguistic aspect , she became professor of the philological department of the Ural State University currently Ural Federal University . Since 2006 Elena Berezovich has also been a research fellow of the Russian Language Institute in Moscow . Work Her main domains of research are onomastics , etymology , semantic reconstruction , dialectology and ethnolinguistics . Elena Berezovich is head of the Ural toponymy expedition, executive director of the Russian Onomasticon Project, member of the Ethnolinguistic commission of the International Committee of Slavists , editor in chief of the journal Questions of Onomastics founded by her university tutor Prof. Aleksandr Matveyev . She is also the editor of some onomastic dictionaries and the fundamental Dictionary of Northern Russian Dialects . Main publications Russian toponymy in ethnolinguistic aspect . Yekaterinburg, 2000. Language and traditional culture Ethnolinguistic inquiries . Moscow, 2007. External links http biography.usu.ru ?base mag&id a 0335 Biographies of the Ural State University http www.ruthenia.ru folklore publications.htm Some publications in Russian of Elena Berezovich on the Folklore and Post Folklore site Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Berezovich, Elena ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1966 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DE ... more details
Thalabi is an Arabic nisbat onomastics nisbat . It may refer to Ahmad ibn Muhammad al Tha labi Abd al Aziz al Thalabi 1874 1944 http tasmaniantimes.com index.php weblog comments the contradictions of jihad Saleh, The Quran Commentary of al Thalabi d427 1035 http www.shareh.ofogh.net persian magazine ayeneh p 88 05.htm al Thalabi, al Kashfwa l bayan http links.jstor.org sici?sici 0022 2968 199710 56 3A4 3C259 3AZBT 22JW 3E2.0.CO 3B2 V Zawiya of Sidi Abd al Rahman al Thalabi http 64.233.183.104 search?q cache E0cv5YUS 9wJ archnet.org library pubdownloader pdf 6041 doc DPC0041.PDF Thalabi 1374&hl sv&gl se&ct clnk&cd 7 disambig Category Nisbats Category Arabic culture ... more details
wikt al suwaydi Al Suwaidi al Suwaydi , as Suwaidi , etc. may refer to Al Suwaidi , a district of Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia. Bayt As Suwaydi , Yemen Al tadhkirah as Suwayd , a medieval medical treatise, see Al Sha rani a nisbat onomastics nisbat in Arabic names People Tawfiq al Suwaidi 1892 1968 , Iraqi politician Naji al Suwaidi 1882 1942 , Iraqi politician Khalid Habash Al Suwaidi born 1984 , a Qatari athlete See also Suwayd disambiguation disambig DEFAULTSORT Suwaidi Category Arabic language surnames Category Nisbats Suwaidi ... more details
orphan date September 2010 Itakh al Khazari Arabic was a leading commander in the Turkish army of the Abbasid caliph al Mu tasim r. 833 842 C.E. . As the nisbat onomastics nisba in his name suggests, he was a Khazar by origin, and is said to have been working as a cook before he was purchased by al Mu tasim at some time before 819. During al Mutawakkil s reign r. 847 861 , Itakh s power over the army at Samarra became a threat to caliphal authority, and al Mutawakkil had him discretely murdered in 849. References Kennedy, Hugh. The Prophet and the Age of Caliphates. 2nd ed. Longman, 2004. Category Abbasid generals az tax it Itakh ... more details
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