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…
The geographical conditions of the largest county of Hungary in the Árpád Era were varied. Its onomastic corpus is particularly rich, and its population is not homogeneously Hungarian. The book deals with the stratum of settlement names of the onomastic stock of the county published in A régi Bihar vármegye településneveinek történeti-etimológiai szótára [A historical-etymological…
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…
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…
The Bodrog and Borsod counties used to be regions of the Hungarian language territory that were situated a long way from each other and had different natural and socio-geographical potentialities. What the author examines in her work is whether these differences are reflected in the settlement name system which can be reconstructed on the basis…
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…
The authors set the aim to describe the settlement names of the Árpád Era in Győr county and outline their system. The toponymic corpus examined by the authors has been taken from a monumental work by György Györffy (Az Árpád-kori Magyarország történeti földrajza [Historical geography of Hungary in the Árpád Era]. 2. Budapest, 1987). 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…
