Výklady místních jmen na oficiálních webových stránkách obcí

• Authors: Pavel Štěpán

Title variants

EN

Interpretations of place names on official municipal websites

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The paper analyses interpretations of place names on the official websites of Czech municipalities. Not only folk etymology, but also quoting official scientific etymologies is investigated. Relationships between the individual interpretations of a toponym are examined. Interpretations on websites often depart directly from folk etymologies, sometimes borrowed from municipal chronicles. On the other hand, some websites present official scientific interpretations or they even refer to authorities in the field of linguistics. The scientific interpretation is often compared to the folk one, often stating which one is considered to be more probable. However, folk etymologies are sometimes preferred to scientific interpretations. Folk interpretations may be based on important factual knowledge, for example awareness of the older form of the toponym, but this does not assure the correctness of the interpretation.

Keywords

CS

toponyma; výklady toponym; lidová etymologie; oficiální webové stránky obcí

EN

toponyms; interpretations of toponyms; folk etymology; official municipal websites

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Czech Ethnological Society
• Journal: Národopisný věstník
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 63
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 464-482
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Pavel Štěpán

• Acta onomastica, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic