Onomastics
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Onomastics or onomatology is the study of proper names of all kinds and the origins of names. The words are from the Greek: "ὀνομαστικός" (onomastikos), "of or belonging to naming"[1][2] and "ὀνοματολογία" (onomatologia), from "ὄνομα" (ónoma) "name".[3] Toponymy or toponomastics, the study of place names, is one of the principal branches of onomastics. Anthroponomastics is the study of personal names.
[edit] See also
- American Name Society
- Anthroponymy
- English Place-Name Society
- Etymology, the study of word origins
- Extinction of surnames
- George R. Stewart, "the man who humanized onomastics" ([1])
- Guild of One-Name Studies
- Hydronyms
- International Council of Onomastic Sciences
- Jaroslav Rudnyckyj, a Ukrainian Canadian linguist and lexicographer with a specialty in etymology and onomastics
- Kazimierz Rymut, linguist and lexicographer with a specialty in etymology and onomastics (the study of proper Polish names).
- naming convention
- -onym, listing the technical kinds of names
- Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland
- Toponymy
- Mononymous persons
[edit] References
- ^ ὀνομαστικός, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus project
- ^ Online Etymology Dictionary
- ^ ὄνομα, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus project
[edit] External links
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- Onomastics at the Open Directory Project
- Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, a Major Research Project of the British Academy, Oxford, contains over 35,000 published Greek names.
