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Socio-Onomastics Analysis on Aristocratic Names in South Nias

Austronesian: Journal of Language Science & Literature
The aristocratic names in South Nias differ from the proper names generally. Instead, it used common nouns to describe name bearers, which are influenced by the language, social, and cultural factors of South Nias. This research was conducted in Öri Maniamölö, South Nias, focusing on four sample villages as members of a group of villages in Öri ...
Yonatan Eklesia Laia, Mirsa Umiyati, I Nyoman Muliana   +2 more
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'Our family came to be with this name'

Nordisk Tidskrift för Socioonomastik
The article focuses on surname choices among families in Denmark, seeking to add a new perspective by proposing that the choices and narratives of surnames contain information about and reflect family identity formation as well as family and gender ...
Katrine Kehlet Bechsgaard
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A Note on Selected Craft Beer Brand Names

Names, 2018
This note addresses selectively the names of craft beers produced by U.S. microbreweries. It considers the following points: (1) a brief history of beer, (2) the rise of the microbrewery in the U.S., (3) a definition of microbrewery, (4) a brief ...
Frank Nuessel
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On Some Current Trends in Kazakh Anthroponymy (Based on Materials from Almaty)

Вопросы ономастики, 2020
This research paper offers a study of newborns’ names in Kazakhstan over the last two decades — from 2000 to 2018. The present study investigates changes and current trends in the national anthroponymicon, attributable to historical, social, political ...
Gulmira B. Madiyeva, Aigerim T. Aliakbarovа   +1 more
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Personal names and migration

Nordisk Tidskrift för Socioonomastik
This paper seeks to offer a broad examination of themes related to personal names within the context of migration. It gives a survey of how language contact effects the name form and reviews various socio-onomastic perspectives, including name choice ...
Michelle Waldispühl
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Symbols for Schools: Types of School Nicknames, How They are Formed, and Implications for Leaders [PDF]

School nicknames are powerful symbols representing the shared values and culture of their respective communities. This descriptive mixed method-study attempts to illuminate patterns in current school nicknames and examine ways that school leaders and ...
Hudacs, Andrew
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Naming and Family Trees as Inter-Generational Epic Narratives in Bette-Obudu Culture, Cross River State

Genealogy
This study articulates how naming and family trees can become epic texts upon which intended or unintended meanings, identities and narratives can be decoded, including mutations in families, as basic units of society. Many studies in African anthroponym
Liwhu Betiang, Esther Frank Apejoye-Okezie   +1 more
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ONOMASTIC STUDY OF NICKNAMES AMONG WOMEN IN ANAM CULTURE

, 2023
This work investigates nicknames among women in Anam culture. It specifically focuses on the pragmatic and cultural meanings of those nicknames answered by Anam women in historic times. The onomastic theory and the conceptual metaphor theory were adopted
Chinwe Ezeifeka, Ekene Stella Odikpo-Okafor   +1 more
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Kuningamäe(d)

Keel ja Kirjandus
The name(s) Kuningamäe This article examines Estonian place names containing the term kuningas ‘king’. The earliest records of Kuninga-names date back to the 16th century.
Tiina Laansalu, Peeter Päll
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Offspring Rivers of The United States

Names, 2018
Streams are significant landmarks in the landscape, often acquiring their specific names before other surface features. In English, rivers stand at the apex of the stream hierarchy.
Michael D. Sublett
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