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Did you ever swim or stroll or frug or jerk or make like a fish or a mashed potato? Do you know that people used to turkey trot and black bottom and even waltz?
Leonard R. N. Ashley
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Cognitive Onomastics: A Look from Europe. Review of the book: Brendler, S. (Ed.). (2016). Cognitive Onomastics: A Reader. Hamburg: Baar. [PDF]
The review provides a critical survey of the book which is the first anthology on cognitive onomastics. The book comprises articles by ten onomasticians from Austria, Hungary, Germany, Poland, and Finland for the period 2004–2014, selected by the editor ...
Natalia V. Vasilyeva
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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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Onomastics as an Interdisciplinary Study
Onomastics, although an autonomous discipline, overlaps the subject matter of many other disciplines since name use is central to human activity. In its subfield of terminologies or nomenclatures; moreover, onomastics relates to every discipline, subject
John Algeo, Katie Algeo
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Свидетельства эпиграфики. Античная история в зеркале древних надписей [PDF]
В данной работе античные инскрипции представлены как источник к изучению следующих страниц в истории Греции и Рима: локальные языки и местные культуры, античные имена, семья и общество, светская и религиозная жизнь, экономика.Настоящая монография издана ...
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Bactrian in Issyk‐Kushan Script: Additional Readings and Decipherments1
Abstract This article presents additional readings of several inscriptions written in the Issyk‐Kushan script, building on the improved system of sound values recently proposed by Sims‐Williams (2025b). We propose that some further lines of Dašt‐i Nāwur inscription DN III and parts of several other inscriptions can now be read as Bactrian, add new ...
Jakob Halfmann +3 more
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Beszámoló a 27. Nemzetközi Névtudományi Kongresszusról
Report on the 27th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences A 27th ICOS Congress was originally planned to be hosted by Krakow in August 2020.
TAMÁS FARKAS, KITTI HAUBER
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Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study
ABSTRACT Past studies of graffiti containing the word ΜΝΗΣΘΗ have never fully established its intrinsic meaning. However, due to the existence of the Aramaic term DKYR, which carries a seemingly identical meaning to ΜΝΗΣΘΗ, in similar contexts in the Roman Near East, a comparison between both words is possible. Four distinct sites where the coexistence
Sebastien Mazurek
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist
ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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A proper name in the legal context
The improvement of the legislation in the onymic system is one of the actual problems serving to the development of onomastics according to the demand of the time. The basic means of the regulation in the sphere of the onomastics is the codification of
Reyhan HABİBLİ
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