Tag: Etymology

ANITA RÁCZ, Ethnonyms in old Hungarian settlement names. 2016.

The antecedent of the book is a work by the same author entitled: Adatok a népnévvel alakult régi településneveink történetéhez [Supplement to the history of Hungarian settlement names formed from ethnonyms] (Debrecen, 2011). In it, the toponymic corpus is analysed from various perspectives. The result of the examination is the treatment of the onomastic corpus…

ÉVA KOVÁCS, The Census of the Abbey of Tihany as a source for historical toponomastics. 2015.

After thoroughly studying the 1211 land survey of the Abbey of Tihany, the author decided to continue her work along the general lines of Hungarian historical linguistic research and disclose even more exact information about the Hungarian language and its users of the decades following the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin. This linguistic record…

MELINDA SZŐKE, Historical linguistic analysis of the founding charter of the Abbey of Garamszentbenedek. 2015.

The charters containing anthroponyms and toponyms in Hungarian are the most important sources of the early history of the Hungarian language. So far, special attention has been paid to genuine charters only. Considering, however, the availability of sources from the early period of Hungarian literacy, other source types (copies or even fakes) should also be…

JOSEF SCHWING, German place names in the dialects of southern Transdanubia. 2011.

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…

KATALIN RESZEGI, Oronyms in medieval Hungary. 2011.

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…

ISTVÁN HOFFMANN, The Founding Charter of the Abbey of Tihany as a source of historical toponomastics. 2010.

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…

ANITA RÁCZ, A historical-etymological dictionary of the settlement names of historical Bihar County. 2007.

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…

RITA PÓCZOS, The linguistic analysis of the settlement names of Borsod and Bodrog counties in the Árpád Era. 2001.

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…

VALÉRIA TÓTH, A historical-etymological dictionary of the toponyms of Abaúj and Bars counties in the Árpád Era. 2001.

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…

ÁGNES BÉNYEI–GERGELY PETHŐ, Linguistic analysis of the settlement names of Győr County in the Árpád Era. 1998.

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…