It is a generally accepted view in studies dealing with Hungarian sound history literature that the old Hungarian language did not favour initial consonant clusters, a feature inherited from Finno-Ugric. Much has been written about the disappearance of such initial clusters in loanwords. However, the toponymic corpus researched by the author clearly shows that the…
The topic of the essay is analysis of place names with toponymic derivatives, which occur as early as in our first written records. That is the reason why the exact time of when this name type could have developed cannot be determined. On the other hand, it can be stated that the development of place…
In the introduction to the study 3 detailed maps demonstrate accurate cartographical data on the German population and the area covered by its dialects in the area. In the introduction the reader will also find information about the structure and historical development of Hungarian place names. The author goes on to expound the fundamental differences…
In her work the author presents the name giving habits and the use of names as reflected by medieval oronyms. Special attention is given to the possible benefits of the study of oronyms for onomastic research and its related fields, such as history. The book consists of three basic units. The subchapters of the first…
The book deals exclusively with the analysis of hydronyms. The basis of the study is the hydronymicon from the Árpád Era, the author has, however, expanded the period involved in her investigation to 1350, the beginning of the early old Hungarian period – in partial conformity to the chronological limit of her references. The book…
Ethnonyms play an important role in acquiring more information on early Hungarian history, however, there are several issues concerning Hungarian settlement in the Carpathian Basin that have remained unexplained up until the present day. Therefore it is vitally necessary to study oikonyms derived from ethnonyms in the Old Hungarian Era, which represent a valuable source…
The volume presents the results of onomatosystematic observations of the connection between a present-day multilingual onomastic corpus and their “users”. At the same time, new aspects are raised for conclusions that can be drawn from onomastic corpora of previous periods. The corpus mentioned above is a collection system of of present-day toponyms, included in Baranya…
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…
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 contains the settlement names of the old Hungarian Bihar County in a dictionary format from the first data until 1600. The border-lines of the county changed relatively often over history, thus data of those village names which belonged to the county for a short period are also given. The author considers every toponym…
