The present book is the first part of a three-volume series. The author analyses place names of Tapolcafő, a small village in Transdanubia with a population of 1,000 and a territory of 15 km2. Laid out in dictionary format, the book demonstrates the historical and present-day toponyms of the settlement. The entries contain all the…
The founding charter of the Abbey of Tihany is the oldest monument of the Hungarian language written in Hungary. The document — issued by Andrew I in Latin in 1055 — is preserved in its original form and contains 82 Hungarian elements: toponyms, common words indicating places and phrases made up of these parts. The…
The oldest records of the Hungarian language emerged after the first millennium, which are, however, not extant Hungarian texts but charters or historical works written in Latin with Hungarian elements, mostly toponyms and anthroponyms. These records are prominent sources of Hungarian philology, while they also represent the most ancient attestations of the Uralic languages. Apart…
It is the merit of such outstanding Hungarian linguists of the first half of the 20th century as János Melich, István Kniezsa and Attila T. Szabó that studies in toponomastics became a major field of research in Hungarian linguistics. After the Second World War, however, hardly any publications in this topic appeared for a decade…
Earlier in the research of old Hungarian toponyms, the study of settlement names was given great priority. The primary reason for this preference was that, besides their philological value as onomastic sources, they were also important as conveyors of historical information. In the earliest Hungarian written records, Latin charters that emerged the first millennium, several…
