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Palestinian First Names: An Introduction
An analysis of the first names of 768 Palestinian school children from the West Bank and from within the Green Line reveals 341 different names. The inventory of these names indicates the usual form of the name as transcribed into the Roman alphabet ...
Hanna Y. Tushyeh +2 more
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Az Amerikai Egyesült Államok tagállamainak hivatalos és informális elnevezéseiről, a tagállamnevek magyar fordításáról [PDF]
State names and state nicknames in the United States. The Hungarian translations of US state names This paper presents some general features of name giving processes adopted by Europeans arriving in the recently discovered New World in colonial times
Bölcskei, Andrea
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A túristvándi roma névadás motivációinak vizsgálata [PDF]
Name giving practices in a Roma ethnic group This paper discusses the Christian name giving practices of the Roma inhabitants of Túristvándi (a little village in Eastern Hungary). Contrary to some expectations (i.e.
Mindák, Cecília
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On the Problem of the Pre-Christian Finnic Personal Names in the Toponymy of the Russian North [PDF]
The article addresses an understudied problem of pre-Christian Finnic personal names in the toponymy of the Russian North. In his observations, the author notes a considerable share of toponyms including such personal names recorded in the region ...
Janne Saarikivi
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Osli keresztnévadásának története napjainkig
The history of Christian-name-giving practices in the settlement of Osli (Western Hungary) Christian-name-giving practices in the settlement of Osli changed greatly in many respects during the two and a half centuries surveyed in the present paper ...
Mária Vargha-Horváth
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Marking Scriptural Figures as Sacred Names
The use of scriptural names is a basic building block of ancient paideia as it is represented by Philo and Christian ecclesiastical writers after him.
Kelsie G. Rodenbiker
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The Pre-National Period’s Swedish Documents as a Source for the Study of the Russian Anthroponymy of Karelia [PDF]
The article deals with the late 16th — early 17th centuries Swedish documents that reflect the anthroponymic system of Kexholm County, one of the territories ceded to Sweden by the Treaty of Stolbovo in 1617.
Irina A. Kyurshunova
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Nature in the System of Lithuanian Personal Names [PDF]
The article deals with some tendencies in development of Lithuanian personal names. With reference to the Data base of personal names of Lithuanian citizens (1898–2010), the register of names of newborn citizens of Šiauliai in 1999–2011, and various ...
Aloyzas Gudavičius
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Imiona nadawane dzieciom w rzeszowskiej parafii farnej na początku XX wieku
The article presents the question of the popularity of Christian names children were baptised in the urban-rural church parish in Rzeszów at the beginning of the 20th century on the basis of parish registers.
Sabina Rejman
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Proper Names in the 17th Century Olonets Codex of Verbal Charms [PDF]
This article deals with the corpus of names found in the charms of the Olonets Codex from the second quarter of the 17th century. The author seeks to identify the background of the characters’ naming, to propose the ways of their detailed cataloguing, as
Andrey L. Toporkov
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