Tag: Anthroponyms

VALÉRIA TÓTH, Toponyms based on anthroponyms in the Old Hungarian Era. 2017.

In the present volume, which is the direct continuation of her monograph on the history of anhroponyms (Valéria Tóth, Debrecen, 2016) the author gives an overall view of how the systemic correlations of personal names spread onto toponyms, and deals with the types of toponyms that contain anthroponymic lexemes. Thus the two volumes constitute an…

VALÉRIA TÓTH, Personal name-giving and personal name usage in the Old Hungarian Era. 2016.

Name theory holds that the two most ancient proper names are anthroponyms and toponyms. Therefore most information about the system of proper names (its function and history) itself can be acquired if the characteristics of these two types of proper names are revealed. They provide not only a wide range of data about the language…