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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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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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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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Slave naming patterns : onomastics and the taxonomy of race in eighteenth-century Jamaica [PDF]
Every year, slave owners responsible for managing estates were required by Jamaican law to submit to the local vestry an account of the whites, slaves, and livestock on their properties.
Burnard, Trevor
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A history of the notion of PROPERHOOD in philosophy and linguistics is given. Two long-standing ideas, (i) that proper names have no sense, and (ii) that they are expressions whose purpose is to refer to individuals, cannot be made to work ...
Coates, Richard
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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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Nombres bíblicos: Pasado y presente
The field of Jewish onomastics is multifaceted covering a period of over 3000 years of Jewish history interacting with the surrounding cultures. This historical overview intends a long-term analysis of proper names, especially those found in the Bible ...
Aaron Demsky
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Forenames and Surnames in Spain in 2004 [PDF]
This paper quantifies the corpus of forenames and surnames in Spain in 2004 using the telephone directory. It describes their frequency patterns, major measurable characteristics, and gives some geographical distributions, international comparisons, and ...
Mateos, P, Tucker, DK
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AbstractThis paper explores the problem of the source value of charters from the point of view of research in linguistic history. Charters written in Latin often contain elements of the vulgar language (in this case, Hungarian). Only four authentic Hungarian charters have survived from the 11th century in their original form.
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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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