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Вопросы ономастики, 2017 The article analyzes the system of personal female names of the Karelian population. As the author demonstrates, the collected corpus of historical and modern Karelian women’s names is yet very incomplete and severely understudied.
Denis V. Kuzmin
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Christian toponyms in Czechia, Poland and Slovakia
Acta Universitatis Carolinae Geographica, 2018 What story can place names tell about the significance of religion to national and regional societies? This study explores Christian place names in Czechia, Poland and Slovakia, three neighboring countries of Central Europe.
Daniel Reeves, Samuel Otterstrom
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The Via Negativa and the Aura of Words
Verbum Vitae, 2023 The negative capacity is essential to creative thinking; we find it in the transcendentalism of the Judaeo-Christian tradition, though the Neoplatonist explanation of unknowing goes far further than simply pointing to the beyond; the idea of aura ...
Raoul Mortley
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Imiona chrześcijańskie w Synodyku nowogrodzkim z końca XIV–XV wieku
Studia Rossica Posnaniensia, 2021 The article contains an analysis of Christian names selected from the oldest synodicon written in the Lisitsky monastery near Veliky Novgorod. The analysis comprises 3190 names of lay people, amongst which are 208 male names and 58 female names.
Marian Wójtowicz
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Baltistica, 2011 INTERACTION OF LITHUANIAN PERSONAL NAMESSummaryThe article examines the three layers of the origin of Lithuanian personal names, i. e. the layer of the old national onomastics, the layer of personal names brought by Christianity and the layer of ...
Zigmas Zinkevičius
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Tikriniai velniavardžiai lietuvių tarmėse ir tautosakoje
Baltistica, 2018 In the Lithuanian dialects and folklore, 22 different proper names for the devil have been recorded. Together with their vernacular variants found in various regions of Lithuania, the number would be close to 50.
Birutė Jasiūnaitė
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The Restructuring of Christian Personal Names in the Pre-National Period: Names Ending in *-ŏ (-ъ, -о) [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2015 The article continues a series of publications analyzing the derivation within a regional system of Christian personal name forms in the pre-national period.
Irina M. Ganzhina
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Nemzetiségi szereplők neveinek összehasonlító elemzése bécsi és magyar élclapokban [PDF]
, 2011 Comparative analysis of names for characters from national minorities occurring in Viennese and Hungarian humour magazines The paper compares the personal names appearing in the Viennese humour magazine Figaro and those occurring in some ...
Tamás, Ágnes
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A moldvai Forrófalva és környéke családnevei a 17-18. században [PDF]
, 2011 Family names of Moldovan settlements in the 17–18th centuries Based on three written records, the paper describes, from a diachronic point of view, the names of the Moldovan Hungarian inhabitants of the settlement called Forrófalva and of its ...
Trunki, Péter
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New Trends in Yorùbá Personal Names among Yorùbá Christians [PDF]
, 2014 In this paper, we examine new trends in Yorùbá personal names that are first names among Yorùbá Christians. The data used include data drawn from previous studies on Yorùbá personal names, the lists of names of the candidates of the Joint Admissions ...
̀Ikọ̀tún, Reuben Olúwáfẹ́mi
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