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 organic unity and the coherence of their approaches is provided by the fact that the formation of toponyms derived from anthroponyms is described in a functional-theoretical framework, a feature shared with the work on the history of personal names.

In the introductory chapter about the general and theoretical questions of anthroponymic toponyms formed from anthroponyms, the author specifies what advantages the research method of this name type has if its characteristics are revealed with the help of of anthroponyms; what purely linguistic questions are raised the answers to which might reveal more effectively the intralinguistic and extralinguistic characteristics of this characteristic toponym type so typical not only of the Hungarian toponym system, but also of those of other languages. toponym system.

The chronological framework here, too, is the Old Hungarian era, extended by the author, if she has found it necessary in both directions since the process of the development and changes of the onomatosystem can be properly evaluated in a broader context.

The author discusses toponyms derived from anthroponyms in terms of toponym structures. A special chapter is devoted to the far-reaching issues of forming anthroponymic toponyms without formants being added, which has been in the focus of interest of both historians and linguists for a long time. A detailed description of toponyms of anthroponymic origin derived through compounding can also be found. Each structural type shows significant differences in frequency, chronology and the peculiarities of the types of antroponyms occurring in them, which can be disclosed most efficiently through their simultaneous analysis. Before the discussion of name structures, the author writes about the controversial state of the historical typology of toponyms, its theoretical and methodological problems and the future tasks of Hungarian toponym research in this particular field.

The process of name giving and name usage in the Carpathian Basin can be seen clearly if it is put in a wider context and system of correlations. That is the reason why the author considers the assessment the level of Hungarian research on toponyms of anthroponymic origin in comparison with European standards.