Dualita místních jmen na Českolipsku

• Authors: Jaroslav Panáček

Title variants

EN

The duality of place names in Česká Lípa region

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

From a corpus of 155 local municipality names in the Česká Lípa region – first attested in written records dating from the Middle Ages (i.e., before 1500) – a subset of 22 localities can be identified that historically bore two distinct, unrelated names. These are names that did not arise through direct translation or adaptation between languages. The aim of this study is to highlight this phenomenon, explore the possible interpretations of such dual naming, and examine the historical and sociolinguistic factors that contributed to its emergence. The duality of place names – specifically, the coexistence of a Czech and a German name – was eliminated only after the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic, when official policy mandated the exclusive use of Czech names.

Keywords

CS

duální jména; místní jména; středověk; Českolipsko; česko-německá toponymie

EN

dual names; place names; Middle Ages; Česká Lípa region; Czech-German toponymy

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta onomastica
• Year: 2025
• Volume: 66
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 422-438
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jaroslav Panáček

• Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v. v. i., Letenská 123/4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic