Tag: Dictionary of toponyms

Toponyms of Hajdú-Bihar County, Vol 1. Toponyms of the Hajdúböszörmény and Hajdúhadház Districts. Ed. BARBARA BÁBA. 2015.

Toponyms of the Carpathian basis have been collected by Hungarian toponymists and made available both to researchers and the general public since the beginning of the 19 th century. Research into and publication of the toponyms of Hajdú-Bihar and Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg Counties have been undertaken by linguists working at the University of Debrecen and the College…

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…

ISTVÁN HOFFMANN, Studies in microtoponymic research, Vol. 1. Toponyms of Tapolcafő. 2013.

The present book is the first part of a three-volume series. The author analyses place names of Tapolcafő, a small village in Transdanubia with a population of 1,000 and a territory of 15 km2. Laid out in dictionary format, the book demonstrates the historical and present-day toponyms of the settlement. The entries contain all the…

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…

ANITA RÁCZ, Supplement to the history of Hungarian settlement names formed from ethnonyms. 2011.

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…

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…

A dictionary of early Hungarian toponyms 1000–1350. 1. Abaúj and Csongrád counties Ed. ISTVÁN HOFFMAN. 2005.

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…

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…