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Tendencies of formation of anthroponyms of rural residents in the oldest Lithuanian parish register of Joniškis dated 1599 - 1621

Onomástica desde América Latina, 2020
Parish registers are among the most important sources of Lithuanian historical anthroponymy. A chronologically unique baptismal register of Joniškis dating to 1599–1621, which is currently the oldest known Lithuanian parish register in Lithuania, stands ...
Alma Ragauskaitė
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Language and culture in dimension

Domínios de Lingu@gem, 2021
Onomastic studies in general—and the studies of the onomastic systems of indigenous languages in particular—require interdisciplinary investigations that address properly the diversity inherent in the field.
Tereza Tayná Coutinho Lopes, Marília Ferreira   +1 more
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Elżbieta pod Wawelem. Funkcjonowanie imienia w antroponimii i kulturze krakowskiej

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Linguistica, 2020
The paper synthetically describes explanations of the etymology of name Elisabeth existing in linguistic studies. It also introduces the functioning of this name in anthroponymy – as a secular and religious name, a basis for creating surnames.
Ewa Horyń, Ewa Zmuda
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Anthroponymy as an element identifying national minority: the characteristics of Polish Old Believers’ names

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2011
The paper focuses on Polish Old Believers’ anthroponymy as the element identifying the group. The Old Believers are one of the ethnic, religious and national minorities in Poland.They came here shortly after the schism in Russian Orthodox Church.
Magdalena Ziolkowska
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Two-Part Personal Names in the Proto-Slavic Language [PDF]

Вопросы ономастики, 2021
The paper deals with the Proto-Slavic two-part personal names reconstructed in the Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages (EDSL), vols. 1–42. Indo-European by their origin, these names retained their use among all Slavs even after the adoption of ...
Svetlana M. Tolstaya
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Family and Clan Genealogy of the Khori-Buryats: Current State and Development (Based on Field Research Data)

Вопросы ономастики, 2022
The paper is devoted to the state of family and tribal genealogy among the Khori-Buryats. In 2020, the author took field trips to collect genealogical legends of the Buryats who identify themselves with 11 clans: Barun- and Zun-Khuatsai, Galzuud ...
Raisa G. Zhamsaranova
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Rencontre de civilisations sur l’Euphrate : un bilan des sources écrites de Doura-Europos

Dialogues d'Histoire Ancienne, 2015
An Encounter of Civilizations on the Euphrates: a Survey of Written Sources from Dura-Europos. Roman Syria was characterized by a multilingual environment and composite anthroponymy. The city of Dura-Europos, on the Middle Euphrates, is a good example of
Giulia Francesca Grassi
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Revisiting Semantic Issues of Proper Names

Names, 2022
The semantic status of proper names in linguistics and language philosophy has been comprehensively studied. It has long been held that proper names are mainly used to refer to certain entities, not to describe them.
Nguyen Viet Khoa
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Wherefore Art Thou Juanita?

Names, 2022
The name Juanita should have been an unlikely candidate for popularity in a place like Newfoundland, where only 0.1% of the population of half a million speaks Spanish as a mother tongue and 0.4% identifies as having Spanish, Latin American, Central ...
Ainsley Hawthorn
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How Three Different Translators of The Holy Qur’an Render Anthroponyms from Arabic into English

Names, 2021
The present paper examines anthroponyms in the Holy Qur'an in three different English translations to shed light on how procedures used by translators can help target-language (TL) readers understand the implied meaning of anthroponyms.
Mahmoud Afrouz
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