Onomastics
Onomastics or onomatology is the study of the etymology, history, and use of proper names.[1]
Overview
Onomastics originates from the Greek onomastikós (ὀνομαστικός, 'of or belonging to naming'),[2][3] itself derived from ónoma (ὄνομα, 'name').[4]
Toponymy or toponomastics, the study of place names, is one of the principal branches of onomastics. Anthroponomastics is the study of personal names. Onomastics can be helpful in data mining, with applications such as named-entity recognition, or recognition of the origin of names.[5][6] It has also been used in historical research to identify ethnic minorities within wider populations.[7][8] Literary onomastics is the branch that researches the names in works of literature and other fiction.[9] An orthonym is the proper name of the object in question, the object of onomastic study.
See also
- Ancient Greek personal names
- Etymology, the study of word origins
- Extinction of surnames
- Hydronym
- Mononymous persons
- Naming convention
- Socionym
- Toponymy
- -onym, listing the technical kinds of names
- Organizations
- American Name Society
- English Place-Name Society
- Guild of One-Name Studies
- International Council of Onomastic Sciences
- Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland
- UNGEGN Toponymic Guidelines
- United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names
References
- ^ "onomastics". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
- ^ ὀνομαστικός, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus project
- ^ "Online Etymology Dictionary". etymonline.com. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
- ^ ὄνομα, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus project
- ^ Carsenat, Elian (2013). "Onomastics and Big Data Mining". arXiv:1310.6311 [cs.CY].
- ^ Mitzlaff, Folke; Stumme, Gerd (2013). "Onomastics 2.0 - The Power of Social Co-Occurrences". arXiv:1303.0484 [cs.IR].
- ^ Crymble, Adam (2017-02-09). "How Criminal were the Irish? Bias in the Detection of London Currency Crime, 1797-1821". The London Journal. 43: 36–52. doi:10.1080/03058034.2016.1270876.
- ^ Crymble, Adam (2015-07-26). "A Comparative Approach to Identifying the Irish in Long Eighteenth-Century London" (PDF). Historical Methods. 48 (3): 141–152. doi:10.1080/01615440.2015.1007194.
- ^ Alvarez-Altman, Grace; Burelbach, Frederick M. (1987). Names in Literature: Essays from Literary Onomastics Studies.
External links
- Onomastics at Curlie
- Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, a Major Research Project of the British Academy, Oxford, contains over 35,000 published Greek names.
- Onomast.com, contains over 50,000 given names with the meanings and origins
