In the present volume, which is the direct continuation of her monograph on the history of anhroponyms (Valéria Tóth, Debrecen, 2016) the author gives an overall view of how the systemic correlations of personal names spread onto toponyms, and deals with the types of toponyms that contain anthroponymic lexemes. Thus the two volumes constitute an…
Name theory holds that the two most ancient proper names are anthroponyms and toponyms. Therefore most information about the system of proper names (its function and history) itself can be acquired if the characteristics of these two types of proper names are revealed. They provide not only a wide range of data about the language…
In this volume the author set the aim to systematize the processes of change of settlement names, and describe each process in detail within this framework. This issue is one of the important in historical toponomastics because studying the changes of names can be of invaluable benefit to toponym typology as a whole as well.…
The book is closely related to the historical-etymologyical dictionary of toponyms of Abaúj and Bars counties (Valéria Tóth, Debrecen, 2001). The book lays special emphasis on the systematic approach, which means meaning that the names are analysed as elements of a larger system. It is believed that the main correlations within the system itself can…
As a PhD student at the Department of Hungarian Linguistics of the University of Debrecen, the author undertook to process the entire toponymic corpus of Abaúj and Bars, two northern counties of historical Hungary. The counties are separated from each other by a long distance. Because all studies in historical onomastics are grounded on the…
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…
