The author studies the Old and Middle Hungarian toponymic corpus of Ugocsa, the northeastern county in historical Hungary. The corpus on which the work is based consists of nearly 2,000 data. The primary goal of the research is to prove that the linguistic features of the toponyms of the county refer to the presence of…
Territorial differences in the structure of microtoponyms have hardly been studied in toponomastics, therefore the author of this study seeks an answer to the question of whether there exist boundaries marking off different phenomena, or onomastic dialects in toponymic systems. The author analyses toponyms from functional-semantic and lexical-morphological perspectives. She also applies a system based…
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…
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…
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…
