Results 21 to 30 of about 26,642 (269)
Nicknames among Swati clans: A socio-cultural analysis
LiteratorNicknames are common in African societies. In Swati families, the use of nicknames is widespread and almost every member of a family possesses one. The nicknames are given to people in addition to their personal names from a young age until adulthood ...
Muzi Matfunjwa +2 more
doaj +1 more source
INFORMAL ANTHROPONYMICON OF VILLAGES: TRANSONYMIZATED NICKNAMES
Записки з українського мовознавства, 2016 The necessity to learn regional particularities of informal naming as an important segment of creating common Ukrainian map of an anthroponymical system saves the first place.
Г. В. Сеник
doaj +1 more source
What Do Village Household Head Names Tell Us about?
Филологический класс, 2023 The article deals with the little-studied fact of the existence of village surnames based on the nickname of the head of the family. The urgency of addressing this topic is due to the rapidly shrinking sphere of Russian dialects and the need to preserve ...
doaj +1 more source
Bashkir Onomastic Heritage in the Materials of Linguistic Expeditions in the 1920s–1930s
Вопросы ономастики, 2022 The article aims to identify and interpret the onomastic material collected in the course of linguistic and general field research in the Tamyan-Katai and Argayash cantons of Bashkiria, carried out by the Academic Center of the People’s Commissariat of ...
Timur G. Mukhtarov
doaj +1 more source
The Intangible Legacy of the Indonesian Bajo [PDF]
, 2015 The Sama-Bajau, or Bajo diaspora, extends from the southern Philippines and Sabah (Malaysian Borneo) to the eastern part of Indonesia. The Indonesian Bajo, now scattered along the coasts of Sulawesi (Celebes) and East Kalimantan, the Eastern Lesser Sunda
Anna Luise Kirkengen (756891) +7 more
core +3 more sources
Nicknames And Rememberance: Memorials To Woodlawn's Jazz Greats
Names, 2006 In the world of jazz, musicians are known by their nicknames. “Duke,” “Bean,” “Cootie” are the names we recognize when we talk about the music made by Duke Ellington and his orchestra.
Susan Olsen
doaj +1 more source
Baltistica, 2011 LITHUANIAN NICKNAMES REFERRED TO A PERSON’S KINSHIPSummaryIn this paper a synchronical approach of the modern Lithuanian nicknames referred to a person’s kinship or dependence on the particular family is given. There exist about 18.4% of such nicknames.
Alvydas Butkus
doaj +1 more source
European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020 Abstract Divergent thinking (DT) is an important constituent of creativity that captures aspects of fluency and originality. The literature lacks multivariate studies that report relationships between DT and its aspects with relevant covariates, such as cognitive abilities, personality traits (e.g. openness), and insight. In two multivariate studies (N
S. Weiss +6 more
wiley +1 more source
From uncomfortable to comfortable: the adaptive reuse of Australian gaols [PDF]
, 2018 Penal colonies form an important historic cornerstone in colonial Australia, and therefore are considered part of Australia’s widely debated uncomfortable heritage.
Langston, Craig Ashley +2 more
core +1 more source
Philological Journal, 2019 The article analyzes the family names of the Zhytomyr region of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, formed from the names and nicknames of the category «nomina impersonalia». The source for the research is the published and handwritten monuments of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, among which the vast majority are handwritten Zhytomyr ...
openaire +4 more sources