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The article deals with nomenclatural names of minerals based on proper names of the persons associated with the Czech environment, and provides their etymologies. The names form part of the official mineralogical nomenclature and have been approved by the Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification of the International Mineralogical Association, i.e. the authority recognizing the existence of new minerals. In the nomenclature consisting of 5,975 items (as of October 2023), 88 names based on anthroponyms have been identified, formed usually from last names, first names or their combination. These words are neologisms known to a limited number of experts, but they nevertheless rank among full-fledged words of the Czech vocabulary that is closely connected to the history of Czech science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In linguistics, onomastics is the science that studies the history and origin of toponyms, along with their structural aspects. This study aimed to determine the origin of toponyms by comparing their linguistic and ethnocultural, as well as mythical, information. A qualitative research design guided this study. A few toponyms were identified through random sampling method including Yrgyz (Irgiz), Burkanbulak, Esik (Yssyk), Auliesu, Zhaiyk (Ural) and Zher-Su, which were collected from etymological, explanatory and mythological dictionaries and collections of mythical texts. The etymological and component analysis methods were applied to study these names. The criteria to select these toponyms were that all should be names of rivers or hydronyms, since river-water was a mythological symbol (the source of life, death and disorder); and that they should occur not only in one language, but in several related languages. The findings revealed that the archetype of each word conformed to phonetic changes. There were also structural connections between these words. Besides, each word had symbolic connotations. This study would provide useful insights about ethnocultural and mythical information of these words and help in broader understanding of the cultural characteristics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Naming is a global cultural phenomenon that has been with man from creation because every known thing has a name. It was for this reason that linguistics, before Ferdinand de Saussure, was simply thought to be a matter of nomenclature. The study of names known as onomastics is further split into two branches: anthroponomastics and toponomastics. The former deals with names of persons while the latter has to do with the study of names of places. As an aspect of world culture that is present in every sphere of human endeavour, it has also been used to good effect in literary creations given that it is a major element in plot and thematic development. In this paper, we critically examined how this phenomenon contributes to the understanding of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. In both works, the second sharing an intertextual rapport with the first, it is observed that most of the names given to characters are derived from the Igbo cosmology. This implies that their significance to the development of the plots as well as themes is lost to non-Igbo readers. It is therefore equally imperative in this study to consider the implications for the translation of names. In order to achieve our aim we hinged our analysis on two theoretical frameworks due to the double-pronged nature of our study: a pragmatic context for in-depth exegesis and translation sense theory for limitations in meaning transfer for the benefit of a non-Igbo audience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines Rus' chronicles' information about female political participation. Frequent omission of women's given names in the chronicles is often interpreted as evidence that Rus princesses were less politically significant than Western and Byzantine elite women. An analysis of East Slavonic name usage offered below challenges this interpretation. The paper argues that the scarcity of information about women in the extant sources does not reflect the realities of pre-Mongol Rus, and that elite women in Rus were no less politically active than their counterparts in the rest of Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article aims to understand Khaketla's intent in naming the characters in Mosali a Nkhola. As one of its key features, a novel has characters whose main purpose is to carry readers through the journey the author proposes for them. Characters, like people in real life, bear names that not only help identify them, but also play a vital role in the development of the theme in a literary text. The author makes assumptions about certain things and relies on them when selecting names for the characters. Through character naming, the author blends reality and artistic features to attain credibility. This, therefore, indicates that in literature, as in real-life contexts, names are not just tags, but they carry particular meanings. Using literary onomastics as an analytical tool, the article explores the names of the characters in Mosali a Nkhola to find out their meanings and significance in the development of the theme of the novel. The findings reveal Khaketla's creative skill in naming in that the names are symbolic of Basotho history, culture and tradition. They also represent the traditional and modern philosophies, bringing out the concept of cultural dynamism in the text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Vernonia missurica Raf. (Compositae: Vernonieae: Vernoniinae) is described and illustrated, a full synonymy provided, the location of known type material provided, and its taxonomic position discussed; a selected iconography is indicated. The cultivation, propagation, pests and diseases and availability of the species are commented on. The complexity of the tribe Vernonieae in a global context is discussed and compared with that of the Eupatorieae. Vernonia Schreb. sensu stricto is considered by some to be restricted to North America and Mexico, with two disjunct species in South America. The infrageneric classification of Vernonia s.s. is commented on, although it is clearly appropriate to regard any formal classification as work in progress as historical attempts are a nomenclatural issue still to be resolved, if needed. The etymology of the generic names Vernonia and Vernoniopsis is introduced and then discussed at length. Vernoniopsis Dusén (Vernonieae), described following anatomical work on xylopodia, is considered to be congeneric with Pycnocephalum (Less.) DC. (Vernonieae). Dusén's name, once highlighted, has subsequently been added to Index Nominum Genericorum, although incorrect assumptions have been made in the Plants of the World Online record, and still have to be updated. A revised generic synonymy of Pycnocephalum and that of Pycnocephalum plantaginifolium (Less.) DC. is provided; the types of all heterotypic synonyms is stated, along with the location of known type material. The later homonym, Vernoniopsis Humbert (currently in the Astereae: Madagasterinae), thus requiring a replacement name, is given the name Jalantzia, and the appropriate new combinations, Jalantzia caudata and J. lokohensis, aremade. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Name change can only take place in the Netherlands under strict conditions and according to patronizing regulations. At the moment, an amendment of name law is being drafted that would give descendants of Dutch citizens whose ancestors lived in slavery an exemption. If they have a family name that their ancestors received upon their release, they may change it free of charge. It remains to be seen, however, whether the desire to adopt new names in keeping with a reclaimed African identity can also be granted. After all, that would conflict with the general regulations when creating a new name. The whole issue shows political opportunism. First, it would be useful to get a good picture of name adoption in light of surnaming in general. Is it right to consider the names in question as slave names? Are they really that bad? It is more likely that precisely the exceptional position now obtained leads to undesirable profiling. In fact, the only solution to embarrass no one is a wholesale revision of the name law that does away with outdated 19th century limitations. Why should anyone be unhappy with their name? Why should someone who insists on having a different name be prevented from doing so? This essay examines the announced change in the law against the background of surnaming in general and the acquisition of family names in Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles in particular. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study focuses on changes of surnames among Czech and Moravian Jews. The changes are tracked until the start of the German occupation in 1939. The source material is comprised of Jewish birth registers from 1867 to 1918 from Prague, as this was the most populous Jewish community of the region. These records are part of fund No. 167 stored in the Czech National Archive. More than 17,000 Jewish children were born in Prague during this period and only 350 of them changed their surnames. Surnames were mostly changed by young men under the age of 30. A large wave of renaming occurred mainly at the beginning of the 1920s shortly after the formation of Czechoslovakia (1918). Renaming was part of the assimilation process but was not connected to conversion to Christianity. The main goal was the effort to remove names perceived as ethnically stereotypical, which could stigmatize their bearers (e.g., Kohn, Löwy, Abeles, Taussig, Goldstein, etc.). Characteristic of the new surnames was the effort to preserve the same initial letter from the original surname. The phenomenon is compared with the situation in neighboring countries (Germany, Hungary, and Poland). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article are published four new graffiti found in the Tepecik settlement in the Lycian harbour of Patara. These inscriptions, three of which are written in Lycian, and one in Greek, are dated from the mid-fifth to the first quarter of the third century BC. They correspond to Lycian personal names, most of which are new. Each of these forms is discussed in detail and compared with related names attested in other Anatolian languages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores Sesotho ideophones as personal names. These ideophones are described with a systemic functional linguistics (SFL) theory framework as they were awarded as enacted messages that explicate social functions. The study is a further alleviation of the problem of complacency of taking personal names for granted, a problem facing Sesotho speakers, unaware that these names arise from their daily discourse and have social functions. It is a qualitative study and data was collected from academic institutions – their enrolment, pass and graduation lists – and from radio and TV broadcasts, telephone directories, neighbours and many other sources. The aim is to establish that Sesotho ideophones deployed as onomastics reflect as the context of reference, the semiotic view that Basotho functionally capture their socio-cultural context to portray their experiences and views. The names employ various linguistic qualities to display the interpersonal 'social fabric' among speakers. Their application displays the name givers skill to realise an ideophone as a permanent onomastic inscription that reveals the name givers' modality or evaluation of a birth context. It is concluded that these ideophones significantly illuminate the aspired form-meaning description of functional Sesotho normally overlooked by Sesotho grammarians. The study finds that a ideophone-onomastic feature supersedes the verb quality of ideophones and makes the verbal group and the nominal group interrelate. Further, it magnifies SFL in the description of Sesotho grammar and strengthens that Sesotho names are context-based texts. Further research could establish the real contexts that describe these ideophone choices as personal names. This study has implications for linguistics, language education, media and advertising and applied linguistics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This section illustrates and comments on the diffusion – over time and in the territory of Piedmont – of some family names that currently have their epicentre in the region. The article, dedicated to the Fauda type, continues the analysis of surname forms inspired by the clothing lexicon that we started in the previous issue. The study of variants and suffixed forms highlights the specificity of local semantic developments. The sheets present the etymon, meaning, historical documentation and distribution of surnames in the different provinces of Piedmont. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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It is known that the words with the letters "f" and "x" used in the Kazakh language originated from Arabic and Persian and are found in European words that entered through the Russian language. Of the article is to discuss the basics of translating the letters "f" and "x" into the Kazakh alphabet. The use of religious and European words in normative dictionaries, with the letters "f" and "x" and entered into the language through the Russian language, is analysed on the basis of the methods of linguistics and statistical analysis. The specifics of these letters in religious discourse and their use in onomastics will be determined. The reasons for the inclusion of the letters "f" and "x" in the improved new alphabet are mentioned. Investigating how the Kazakh language adopts and modifies foreign sounds can contribute to a broader understanding of linguistic adaptation. The proposed research paper can be used in the analysis of the problem of assimilation of borrowed words. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Onomastic evidence offers a unique opportunity for us to understand and reflect upon what we find important enough to notice and lend a name to. This paper studies the street nomenclature of Inverness, a city of key importance throughout Scottish history, to explore what can be inferred about its political, religious and historical past from its street naming patterns and priorities. At its core, this paper surveys the diachronic development of Inverness by looking at maps and town plans from different time periods and qualitatively analyzing the ways in which they represent the fundamental ethos of the city.

In Irkutsk, toponymy has been a purely theoretical science for a long time – names have been rarely given to new streets. However, street names reflect the history of the city, the memory of the people who inhabited it, the sights and ideological preferences. When we give names to the streets, we form a legacy for our descendants. Toponyms should be considered as a historical monument that records all the features of the city’s life, from the relief to occupations of residents, from important objects to memorable events. “Toponymic restoration” is not an attempt at “white revenge”. This is the connection of times, this is the face of our city, which should not for the thousandth time repeat the names of streets in any Russian settlement, which have no deep connection with the territory.

The wealth and possessions of Roman senators in the imperial period consisted predominantly in land property, as emphasized by Pliny the Younger (epist. 3,19,8). It is mainly epigraphic documents that give us information about the location and sometimes extent of senatorial land ownership. Especially in Asia Minor there is plenty of evidence, of which Helmut Halfmann already compiled quite some in 1979. Since then many new testimonies have been discovered and published. Apart from that, further, earlier published evidence for the land ownership of senators whose origin was not in Asia Minor can be added. However, a systematic study of senatorial land ownership in Asia Minor as a whole is not yet at hand. The paper provides prolegomena to such a study. I thus give an overview of the extent, distribution and background of senatorial land ownership in Asia Minor. Rarely is this property so clearly indicated as in the land register of Magnesia (I.Magnesia 122, c2). Usually only the combination of different inscriptions confirms the identification of senatorial landowners. Therefore, I outline methodological guidelines on how to obtain reliable findings from such information. Landed properties could change owners, senatorial estates often passed into the possession of the emperors, which is much better researched. Important questions relate to continuity of ownership within a family and to the circumstances of changes of possession. In this context, I also discuss how the senators came to their property. Especially in the case of senators from other parts of the Roman Empire, the question arises as to why and how they acquired landed property in Asia Minor.

The article announces the winners of the Best Article of the Year Award in the journal NAMES: A Journal of Onomastics. The winners were selected based on criteria such as scientific innovation, academic writing style, research methodology, and overall contribution to the field of onomastics research. The third-place article, "A Case Study of De-Russification of Ukrainian Hodonyms: Rigged Trial or Justice Restored?", focused on toponymic cleansing in Ukraine after the Russian military invasion. The second-place article, "Using the ANPS Typology to Unearth the Relationship Between Japanese Sign Language (JSL) Endonymic Toponym Distribution and Regional Identity", explored the relationship between Japanese sign language and regional identity. The first-place article, "A Change of Name During Sickness: Surveying the Widespread Practice of Renaming in Response to Physical Illness", examined the practice of renaming in response to physical illness in 694 cultures worldwide. The winners' research demonstrated the interdisciplinary nature of onomastics and its ability to provide insights into various academic disciplines. The article concludes by congratulating the winners and thanking the members of the NAMES Editorial Board. [Extracted from the article]

The paper examines some toponyms, which are found in a late-Latin pilgrimage text from the 6th century, known as "De situ Terrae Sanctae". Ancient biblical and extra-biblical tradition is compared with medieval and late-antiquity lexicographical works, such as glossaries, in order to establish a possible history of the semantic and narrative interpretation of each term.

The article deals with Spanish set expressions that include a foreign proper name. The study overviews phraseological units, as well as proverbs and sayings included in the most important Spanish lexicographical works. Dealing with an onomastic (onymic) component requires the description of idioms, their origin, meaning and the degree of linguistic actuality. The study of the selected number of set expressions and proverbs has revealed that some proper names may be considered as international precedent onyms (anthroponyms, mythonyms, poetonyms, etc.) This type of proper names may be interpreted as part of the world cultural legacy, since they are present in the onomastic fund of many languages and are considered a sort of linguistic constant formed throughout human history. Spanish national and cultural identity may be illustrated by idioms with a foreign toponym or anthroponym. Generally, those are set expressions and idioms that allude to some historical events and reflect Spanish military and political activities in the world arena, Spanish cultural and linguistic contacts in different periods. The study of idiomatic phrases, their origin and motivation has revealed the key sources to replenish the Spanish phraseological fund, which are world literature, cinema, classical mythology, the Bible, military and political activities. Chronologically, the majority of the analyzed idioms was created in the Middle Ages and the Modern period, however, foreign proper names continue to replenish the Spanish lexis, since there are many expressions and proverbs with a foreign onym that have been created in the recent centuries.

Introduction. It is in the mid-to-late 18th century at latest that the main phonetic characteristics of Buryat that distinguish the latter from other Mongolic languages — reflected in its western and eastern dialects — took shape. The initial period that had witnessed the formation of these specific elements still remains somewhat unclear. The paper analyzes authentic sources and attempts to show a possibility that the areal phonetic features of Buryat emerged within local population groups of Baikalia as far back as the early-to-mid 17th century. Goals. The article analyzes ethnonyms (and other onyms) relating to the Buryat population and recorded in seventeenth-century Russian-language documents to identify spelling (pronunciation) specificities characteristic of Buryat dialects. Materials and methods. The study examines ethnonyms and personal onyms across Buryat-related historical communities contained in seventeenth-century documents (Rus. otpiski) of Russian servicemen and Cossacks. The work focuses on names traced in two territorial groups of the Buryat population on different banks of the Angara River conventionally be referred to as ‘right-bank Angara territorial group’ and ‘left-bank Angara territorial group’ — regardless of any dialect classification. Results. The conducted analysis attests to that the mentioned period was already characterized by the existence of certain spelling (pronunciation) features within the two identified territorial groups of the Buryat population, the ones to reflect different stages in the development of the Buryat phonetic system. Conclusions. The revealed possibility implying the phonetic features of the Buryat language inherent to different stages of the latter’s development could have already existed as early as the mid-17th century in the population of two wide territorial areas of Baikalia makes it appropriate to outline further prospects of linguistic research to detail developmental chronologies for those phonetic characteristics that eventually led to the shaping of specific features in present-day Buryat.

The study explores the origin of the surnames Bagryzlov, Badryzlov currently owned by several hundred Russians. At present, these are mostly spread in the south of the Tyumen region and in adjacent territories which is where the surname Badryzlov first appears in historical documents in the first half of the 18th century. According to these sources, the surname indicates a relation to Cossacks. The geographical and linguistic analysis of the variants of the surname undertaken by the author with consideration of close evidence from Russian dialectal appellative vocabulary and onomastics (including those territories that were historically associated with the Cossacks) confirmed the “Cossack” origin of these surnames. According to the author’s hypothesis, they go back to the South Russian Cossack nickname from the appellative *badryzglo which meant either a reveler who likes to drink heavily or, conversely, a weak, sick, old person. In the first case, the surnames can be traced back immediately to the verb dryzgat’ ‘to drink alcoholic beverages immoderately,’ whilst in the second case, the surnames must be considered in relation to the verb’s derivatives meaning ‘something broken, crumbling, worthless.’ The research is at the junction of onomastics and dialect lexicology: apart from the surnames Bagryzlov, Badryzlov, it covers the etymology of a number of close common dialectal words (bagryza, bagryzlo, bagryzya) and reconstructed forms (*badryzlo, *badryzya). Looking into the etymology of the Ural and Siberian surnames, the author specifies two main ways of how South Russian Cossack vocabulary could penetrate the dialects of the Urals and Trans-Urals. Firstly, there is documentary evidence that Cossack daughters were often married to local peasants and citizens, secondly, the decossackizations periodically carried out in the Russian Empire led to the fact that many Cossacks finally stopped participating in military activities and became peasants or citizens.

This article aims to study the poetics of the name in the stories of the Brazilian writer José Mauro de Vasconcelos (1920-1984). To name represents indeed an important issue in Vasconcelos’ work, and is part of the characters’ recreation of the world. Moreover, the name can be featured by its fragmentation and reflect an identital as well as an existential rip. Finally, it arouses fascination due to its narrative potentiality, emotional value and the love fetishization it brings about.

The article analyses the influence of Vladimír Šmilauer on the character of the Journal of Modern Philology (Časopis pro moderní filologii, ČMF). Šmilauer was associated with the Journal for Modern Philology as an author and an editor for Slavic studies (1939–1951). The article describes the main linguistic/philological topics contributed to the magazine by Šmilauer (Slovak studies and the history of the Slovak language, new Czech, e.g. orthography, reports on foreign literature, etc.). The period of Šmilauer’s work at the ČMF falls into a time of socially problematical political systems: the Nazi protectorate after 1939 and the communist terror after 1948. On the example of the case of Šmilauer, we will show how and when political systems were directly reflected in the philological content of the Journal for Modern Philology.

Introduction. It is in the mid-to-late 18th century at latest that the main phonetic characteristics of Buryat that distinguish the latter from other Mongolic languages — reflected in its western and eastern dialects — took shape. The initial period that had witnessed the formation of these specific elements still remains somewhat unclear. The paper analyzes authentic sources and attempts to show a possibility that the areal phonetic features of Buryat emerged within local population groups of Baikalia as far back as the early-to-mid 17th century. Goals. The article analyzes ethnonyms (and other onyms) relating to the Buryat population and recorded in seventeenth-century Russian-language documents to identify spelling (pronunciation) specificities characteristic of Buryat dialects. Materials and methods. Part One of the study deals with discussions over some general chronology of phonetic changes that have resulted in the shaping of Buryat, and distinguish the latter from other Mongolic languages. The paper examines major related works, analyzes methods and approaches employed by the researchers. Results. Our insights into scholarly publications conclude there is no compromise view on the lower chronological limit that would serve as terminus a quo for Buryat phonetic features. According to some researchers, key processes that fundamentally rebuilt the Buryat consonant system had begun in the 17th century and proceeded to completion by the early 18th century, while others insist those had emerged only in the late 17th century to culminate throughout the 18th century. Conclusions. Scholars that have dealt with Buryat phonetics tended to focus on eighteenth-century linguistic materials and rarely turned to other sources, such as Russian loanwords in Buryat, Mongolian loanwords in Evenki and Yakut, chronological attributions of the latter be further explored in historical contexts of phonetic systems of recipient languages, with due account for actual circumstances of interaction with native speakers of Mongolic languages. The absence of original written sources shall definitely leave these questions unanswered. So, historical linguistics can independently serve as a promising tool for such historical reconstructions.

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Critics have long argued that the Beowulf poet invented the name Hondsciōh ('glove') and gave it to Grendel's Geatish victim in order to make a pun or introduce humour into the poem. Though differing aesthetic rationales for the name have been offered, a consensus has formed that Hondscioh's peculiar name must reflect conscious artistry and literary sophistication. The present article challenges this consensus and argues that Hondsciōh became a personal name due to an aural misunderstanding in an earlier rendition of the Beowulf narrative: what had been a term for Grendel's glove was misconstrued as the name of Grendel's victim. The championed explanation is shown to possess greater coherence and explanatory power than its competitors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper targets the division of labor between borrowed English forms and heritage alternatives in Belgian-Dutch youth language. Through lexical semantic analysis of a youth-language corpus containing over 450,000 private instant messages, the choice for English or Dutch person-reference nouns (e.g. Eng. girlfriend, loser, sister; Du. vriendin, sukkel, zus) is studied at three levels of semasiological granularity. First, at the level of the semantic field as a whole, Dutch appears to have the strongest foothold, accounting for over 75 % of the types and over 85 % of the tokens referencing people. Second, coarse-grained semantic-feature annotation reveals that Dutch retains its dominant position in all identified semantic subcategories of person-reference nouns although some hubs of English are also attested. Third, an in-depth analysis of the selection between the near-synonyms sis, sister, zus, zusje and zuster in the corpus indicates socio-pragmatic differentiation between the English and Dutch terms, English being used more for (affective) address and for friends, Dutch being reserved for reference and for proper kin. Overall, our study indicates the potential of a three-tiered onomasiological approach: the results of the three case studies show both similarities, in the systematically stronger foothold of Dutch at all levels of analysis, and differences, in the semantic specialization for English progressively uncovered from the first to the third sub-study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Names symbolize an individual's identity, highlighting their unique attributes and representing their religious and cultural background. Names often serve as initial indicators of individuals' cultural identities and beliefs. In the context of interfaith marriages, the names given to children can offer symbolic insights; however, a comprehensive exploration of the religious, national, and cultural factors underlying such naming choices is required. In many cases, the social environment of interfaith couples exerts pressure on the couple to choose a name aligning with their religion and identity, whether willingly or unwillingly. Antalya, a Turkish province that initially attracted a substantial Slavic population for tourism but subsequently witnessed a significant influx of permanent residents due to the ample employment prospects in the tourism sector, is notably distinguished by its increased Slavic demographic relative to other Turkish urban centers. In this context, Antalya garners notice because of the prevalence of interfaith marriages. This study investigates the preferences of Orthodox (Slavic) and Muslim (Turkish) couples within the region in terms of how they name their children and the factors influencing their preferences. This study systematically gathers and assesses the factors influencing the naming choices of children of these interfaith couples, particularly their correlation with religiosity. To accomplish this, a semi-structured interview prepared by the researchers was employed for data collection, and the data were subsequently analyzed using document analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the cases wherein a previously unknown and unique mythological character (with his/her specific behavior, "personal" traits, appearance, origin, etc.) is generated by a cultural linguistic sign or a fragment of text. This research is based on the Russian cultural and linguistic tradition, mainly in its dialectal version (the language of Russian peasants). Its sources include data published in the late 19th–early 21st century in dictionaries of Russian dialects and, primarily, the unpublished field materials of the Ural Federal University Toponymic Expedition, covering data from the Russian North, the Urals, and the Volga region. According to their nature or origin, the names of characters studied in this paper derive from two types of linguistic signs: (1) Names based on usual forms of standard vocabulary that can be both proper and common nouns; the former may refer to various categories, such as toponyms (names of geographical objects), chrononyms (names of calendar dates), hagionyms (names of saints), names of icons, etc. (2) Names originating from a text, usually folkloric; these are word combinations or phrases that only act as a single unit within their "parent" text. Sometimes, but less often, these consist of one word that is of key importance in the source text. Such a phrase or word can migrate outside the "parent" text or genre, expanding their lexical combinability and changing their syntactic regime to become a name of a mythological character. It takes two sources of motivation for a new character to emerge—a linguistic (a word that seeks a new context) and a cultural one (a semiotically intense context, such as a situation associated with danger, prohibition, omens, aggression, or magical practices). The combination of these incentives is not uncommon, so the stock of mythology used for names is being constantly renewed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article provides an overview of the Russian origin of Karelian cow names. It explores what the Russian-origin names mean, what the most common principles of naming are, and whether Russian names have Karelian equivalents. Attention is also paid to the spatial and temporal variation of the names. The data were collected in the 2010s by means of interviews. The data are compared with the name data recorded in the Dictionary of Karelian (KKS). The KKS data reveal extensive adaptation to the Karelian language, whereas in the interview data there is less adaptation to Karelian and the names are often thoroughly Russian. In the KKS data the most common principle of naming is the time of birth, and names based on colouration are also common. According to both data sets, the principles of naming have remained relatively consistent, and the data reveal no great spatial differences in the occurrence of names. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Toponymy, which is one of the sub-branches of onomastics, provides naming data that can be used to examine the way societies perceive the universe and nature through their perception of space. In this context, it can be said that analyzing Turkish toponyms in the Anatolian geography is a very appropriate method to obtain guiding outputs about the cultural and settlement history of the Turks of Turkey. It is noteworthy that some of the toponyms found in Anatolia, which are understood to be Turkish in terms of their morphophonemic structures, have not provided any information about their linguistic features and origins other than folk etymologies. Based on this attention, through this study, some suggestions based on the methods of linguistics on the origin of the name "Çakraz", which is mostly used as a village name in various regions of Anatolia, have been expressed. Accordingly, there are many linguistic reasons to think that the toponym "Çakraz" is formed as "Çakır + Az". In this study, these reasons and the inferences about which concept area this toponym may cover are discussed in the presence of alternative views and based on the toponym Çakraz in Bartın-Amasra. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the worship of Anāhitā in Western Asia examining some of the ideas put forward by James R. Russel in his volume on Zoroastrianism in Armenia in the light of more recent discussions about the role played by the goddess in Armenian religion before the conversion of the country to Christianity. While the evidence from more ancient periods has also been briefly presented, specific attention is given to Anāhīd's worship in the Sasanian period and to the devotion of Narseh to this divinity. Finally, Middle Persian personal names containing the theonym Anāhīd are briefly introduced and discussed, showing that this important divinity is underrepresented in Sasanian and post-Sasanian onomastics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Facebook allows users to easily share their thoughts and feelings with other users. This study attempts to investigate the linguistic behavior of Jordanian Facebookers' choice of nicknames in Arabic. In so doing, it gives a window onto the norms and values of the Jordanian culture in a way that interaction in most other kinds of situations does not. The data consist of 234 nicknames (71 males and 163 females), which were collected from 11 large Facebook groups. Also, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 11 participants to obtain their views on their use of nicknames. The results showed that the preferred category of nicknames for males is "animals reference" (23.4%), whereas "celestial bodies reference" is the least frequent type used. Females preferred using nicknames under "superiority reference" (17.3%), whereas "job reference" and "famous characters' reference" are the least frequent types used. Overall, this study lends evidence to the view that gender influences linguistic choices, including nicknames. Significantly, the analysis also shows that both males and females tend to use terms that have a "pessimistic reference" more than those that carry an "optimistic reference". Besides, the analysis shows that "flora reference" is a category that was often used in female nicknames. Essentially, it enriches knowledge about the Jordanian culture as it provides information about the general mentality, ways of thinking, and emotional and evaluative attitudes towards the genuineness of the people. Such knowledge can be of great benefit to learners of Jordanian Arabic as a foreign language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The proposed work is devoted to determining how the origin of anthroponyms is explained by the simple consciousness of the people, based on the views that consider folk linguistics as a branch of linguistic anthropology. The purpose of the article is to identify the peculiarities of the interpretation of anthroponyms in folk linguistics based on legends and stories concerning the names Mirash, Mapyrashty, Shapyrashty, Zhalaiyr, Kanly. It is believed that the subject of folk linguistics research is the native speakers' ideas about their language, the impact of this understanding on the structure of the language and the socio-cultural situation in the community. One of his areas is how in folk etymology the origins of a word are understood by a native speaker, i.e. what underlies the name, its social causes and consequences, and their cultural significance. The scientific significance of the article is explained by the systematization of statements related to the subject and object of scientific research of folk linguistics, the determination of the ratio of folk or everyday metalanguage consciousness and scientific knowledge, the analysis of mutually consonant and contradictory judgments of researchers, folk linguistics terms' uses and their meanings, and the practical significance - the transfer of the model of analysis of "unprofessional" knowledge about the language. In the course of the work in the review of scientific research, methods of comparison, analysis of the main conclusions and the method of contextual analysis of examples of folk linguistics collected from various sources were used. In conclusion, it is noted that the anthroponyms Mirash, Mapyrashty, Shapyrashty, Zhalaiyr in the everyday consciousness of the people carry the content of legends and stories, based on the content of these texts determine the reasons for naming (1) a pseudonym assigned in relation to the character of a person (Mirash); 2) a name based on the power of a person (Mapyrashty); 3) the name given to him by sound similarity and by addressing him (Mapyrashty / Shapyrashty); 4) the name due to the curvature, inertia of the eyes (Shapyrashty), 5) the combination of phrases describing the strength of the hero (Zhal aiyrgan batyr / Zhalaiyr)) was determined and formulated. The value of the proposed article complements the scientific conclusions that consider folk linguistics as a separate branch of linguistics. The practical significance of the work is characterized by the suitability of the conclusions drawn for use in research in this area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Icelandic chieftain Óláfr Hǫskuldsson of Laxdæla saga is the son of an enslaved Irish princess, Melkorka, yet is still judged a candidate to succeed her father as an Irish king. His choice to return to Iceland is validated by his subsequent success as a stockman and community leader. Yet he fails to recognize that the source of his prosperity and material plenty lies in his maternal inheritance, in which Melkorka (‘Smooth-Oat’) may be identified as a Celtic sovereignty figure, the source of his irrecusable election to a rich somatic life and chieftaincy, complemented by the attention of his paternal family’s tutelary spirit or fylgja. By slaughtering his totemic ox, Harri, he calls down the vengeance of the Icelandic tutelary figure representing his father’s family’s fortunes which had concurrently assured his success. Retribution follows later in the saga with the death of his favourite son, Kjartan. From the perspective of the thirteenth century, when Iceland yielded to Norwegian hegemony, the arc of Óláfr’s career is paralleled on a greater scale by Iceland’s early medieval history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Erythrina L. is a genus that comprises ca. 120 to 130 species distributed throughout the tropics and subtropics of the world. Linnaeus established the genus in Genera Plantarum (1737) and the first binomial name given to a Brazilian Erythrina was E. crista-galli L., described by himself in Mantissa Plantarum (1767). Vellozo proposed in Florae Fluminensis (1790-1881) the first treatment of the genus in Brazil, where he treated three species from the states of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Martins and Tozzi proposed the most recent treatment in 2018, where the authors recognized 11 valid names and presented three new synonyms. Despite extensive efforts already made in the genus, previous works did not treat all names related to the valid ones for Brazilian Erythrina. The present work is the most comprehensive and up-to-date nomenclatural treatment for the genus in Brazil, covering all 84 related names found on digital nomenclatural databases. Here we analyze 64 protologues, update typification statuses, propose five new synonyms, 13 new lectotypes (11 first-step, two second-step) and one neotype, linking all protologues and type specimens with their corresponding available digital sources, and make additional notes on etymology and vernacular names. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the overlooked topic of maternal ties of kinship in Umayyad history through the case study of ʿĀʾisha bint Hishām ibn Ismāʿīl al-Makhzūmī, the mother of Hishām ibn ʿ⁠Abd al-Malik (r. 105–125/724–743). Using a range of primary sources, including annalistic, adab , and eschatological sources, as well as early Islamic poetry, it investigates the significance of matrilineal kinship and naming practices in the Marwanid period. ʿĀʾisha's representations across sources illuminates how sources discuss caliphal mothers and the role of the matrilineal family in marriage and naming practices. A brief prosopographical analysis also demonstrates the widespread use of maternal names in early Islamic society – ʿĀʾisha is said to have named her son after her father. Early Islamic poets praised maternal kinship ties, indicating an appeal to caliphal constituents from the maternal family. Overall, by incorporating maternal ties of kinship into Marwanid history, we may gain a more complete understanding of early Islamic society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Baltic onomastics (as in 'Old-European' onomastics) traditions are rather long-lasting. One of these traditions - which should now finally be discarded - is that etymologies of hydronyms of the older layers of Indo-European (IE) languages tend to be made by means of pre-World-War-II IE linguistics. Some of these traditional etymologies become impossible, when modern methods of IE linguistics and certain more general rules of scientific procedure (as, e.g., 'Occam's razor') are applied. New results can only be achieved, when the methodology of a certain science is applied at its most advanced level. A point coming up time and again is that the continued use of old-fashioned methodology leads to the creation of ghost words or ghost roots, which are hard to get rid of. Two such spooky roots will be presented: One is the (in)famous root PIE *en-/*on- 'to flow' (regularly to be found in the discussions on hydronyms since Krahe's times - but not even booked in Pokorny's "Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch"): As there is no evidence a root PIE *h1en(H)- 'to flow' ever existed and as all names presumably based on that root can be explained by the roots PIE *pen- or *h2en-, applying Occam's razor we may say that those two roots are sufficient and we need not invent a third one. The other root to be discarded is PIE *(h1)lei̯k- 'to bend'. It turns out to be a mere phantasma as it is not attested in the appellatival lexicon of any IE language. The Lithuanian river-names Liẽkė etc. can be derived without any problem from the root PIE *u̯lei̯k- '(to be) wet, moisten', which is well attested in other IE languages. As will be shown, this makes it impossible, however, to connect the Lithuanian river names with the name of the river Lech (in Austria and Bavaria) any longer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to define some aspects of the terms microtoponym and the local term in Latvian onomastics field name (āru vārds). Both refer to small objects of nature like fields, pastures, marshes, bogs, etc., and are defined as synonyms in the currently existing linguistic terminology. The works of Latvian onomastic researchers still show some differences - microtoponym is mostly used to emphasize the socio-onomastic status of the place name and not considering it on the same level as, for example, hydronyms and oronyms. On the other hand, the local term, which is used relatively much less often, is mostly found as a unifying designation In the study, using the available theoretical literature and the works of specific authors, an attempt is made to provide an insight into the development of the use of the terms microtoponym and the local term in Latvian toponymy, as well as about analogous terms elsewhere in the world. The purpose of the article is to look for reasons why these terms do not really function as full-fledged terminological synonyms, as well as to offer a possible and, of course, debatable solution to the problem of both terms. Microtoponyms are a rather unstable group of place names, and as the objects of nomination change, their meaning in people's everyday life changes, so sometimes it becomes relevant to review the onomastic terminology and, if necessary, correct or supplement it. Today, the use and recognition of a place name function in connection with other types of information exchange and people's economic activity, however, microtoponyms, as names created through natural nomination, are still the closest to the appellative lexicon and can testify to the processes of language change. A flexible terminological system is needed to reflect these changes in research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores how personal names are granted to EmaSwati nation. Personal naming system is a significant practice among Africans and it differs greatly from language to language. Personal names belong to the science called onomastics and to a further category named anthroponomastics, while place names belongs to toponomastics. The rationale of this work is to provide the structural meanings, interpretations and principles of unity from structural to functional views. The morphological principles and structures are expected to ensure that they are linguistically combined for harmonized connotations and meanings. Morphological structures of Siswati personal names are investigated, with a focus on prefixes, suffixes, and infixes that convey information about gender, age, and social status. Morphological patterns are analyzed to discern any historical or sociolinguistic influences. The study also delves into the semantic layers of Siswati personal names, uncovering the meanings, associations, and cultural connotations attached to specific names. This semantic analysis sheds light on how names reflect the values and beliefs of the Siswati-speaking community. The bestowal of personal names are influenced by the process of enculturation and socialization which are shown by multiculturalism. They are looked at from social and cultural life of the society and morphologically delineated. The prosodic features such as stress, intonation and rhythm are vital for correct pronunciation of sounds. The linguistics and textual analysis are adopted for this research work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article represents a trend of research in phraseology and onomastics. It describes obsolete phraseological combinations which contain an oikonymical component which currently refers to Ukraine and it analyses combinations which feature proper names which refer to major or well-known cities as well as other places and villages along with adjectives which are derived from them, e.g.: Berdyczów (Pisuj na Berdyczów [lit. trans. Write to Berdyczów]), Brusiłów (brusiłowska biblioteka [lit. trans. Library of Brusiłów]), Humań (humański dureń [lit. trans. a fool from Humań]), Kamieniec Podolski (Kamieniec do Polski klucz [lit. trans. Kamieniec – a key to Poland]). The purpose of these considerations is to closely examine phraseologisms and proverbs which were used earlier and which constitute testimony to many centuries of historical and cultural links between Poland and Ukraine as well as to indicate the reason why the lexical constructions became obsolete. The lexical combinations which were described constitute a worthwhile linguistic account of the life in remote periods of history. The realia of the past documented in this account reflect former Polish-Ukrainian linguistic contact. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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