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What can Nabataean Aramaic tell us about Pre‐Islamic Arabic?
Abstract Nabataean Aramaic contains a large number of loanwords from Arabic. Together with other evidence, this has been taken as an indication that the Nabataeans used Aramaic as a written language only, while a Pre‐Islamic variety of Arabic was their spoken language.
Benjamin D. Suchard
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Solidarity with everyone? Intergroup helping and COVID‐19
Abstract This study investigates peoples' prosocial attitudes and real‐life prosocial behaviour towards different ethnic groups during the COVID‐19 pandemic, taking Germany as an empirical example. In a preregistered multi‐study design, we examined: (a) who receives help, (b) who helps and (c) what explains prosocial behaviour. In study 1, we conducted
Ruta Yemane +5 more
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A Kiss Lajos-díj 2018. évi nyertese: dr. Győrffy Erzsébet
Winner of the 2018 Lajos Kiss Prize: Dr Erzsébet Győrffy The Lajos Kiss Prize, awarded every two or three years since 2006, is considered to be a highly prestigious award for young onomasticians.
ISTVÁN HOFFMANN
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Russian Names with the Stem Maur-, Testimonies of the Old Rostov Land [PDF]
The article looks to the origins of Russian proper names with the stem Maur- and specifically deals with toponyms of Maurino and the like, which are particularly prevalent in the Yaroslavl region and commonly attested in the vicinities of Kostroma ...
Nikolay M. Shvarev
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In the article, the onomastic vocabulary of the 15–17th centuries is determined as an aspect of the ancient anthropological tradition. The proposed historical and etymological reconstruction of the nominations testifies not only to the evolution of the processes of naming a person, but also expands the native speakers’ understanding of the ethno ...
O. Yu. Vasilyeva, D. O. Volnykh
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Russian Names with the Stem Balah(o)n- in Historical and Etymological Perspective [PDF]
The article analyzes the origin of Russian personal and place names with the stem Balah(o)n-. The author argues that originally the stem in question was part of the Old Novgorodian diminutive personal name or surname *Balahno formed from an abridged ...
Nikolai M. Shvarev
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A tulajdonnevek mentális reprezentációjáról
On mental representation of proper names Onomastics, especially historical onomastics, has always been ready to take over the attitudes and results of other branches of linguistics or related studies.
Katalin Reszegi
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Controversial article on geonomastics [PDF]
This article aims to discuss, firstly, the substantiation of a new discipline within the applied onomastics with a short excursion into the historical domain, its relationship to other sub-disciplines, then its difference from toponymics, and finally to ...
Evgeny Shokhenmayer
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From the History of the Russian Surname of Deyanov / Diyanov / Dianov
The paper discusses the variation of a surname that currently sounds like Dianov over the history of one family. Different variants were retrieved from the official documents preserved in the family archive and from the State Archive of the Sverdlovsk ...
Natalia V. Galinova, Maria E. Ruth
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Proper names, also linguistically called toponyms and anthroponyms, embed extensive sociolinguistic, cultural, and historical aspects in the life of any nation. Thus, they have caught the researcher’s attention because of the cultural and historical heritage they preserve in the context of language contact.
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