The paper aims at the presence of North-East Czech dialectal elements – and, more narrowly, those of the Giant Mountains Foreland (Podkrkonoší) area – in the contemporary toponymy in the cadaster of the town Vysoké nad Jizerou. The author analyses both folk (“living”), and standardized toponyms and their mutual relation, and comes to the conclusion that contemporary toponymy employs dialectal means especially of the morphological, word-forming and lexical sort, whereas the phonetic elements of the Giant Mountains Foreland dialect are gradually disappearing. To the end of the paper, the author also suggests the ways of effective linking toponomastic research and the presentation of its results with the methods and tools of geographic information system.
The article describes German and Czech toponymy in the cadaster of the town of Lučany nad Nisou. Special attention is paid to the development of Czech toponymy after 1945 in connection with the post-war revision and standardization processes. Furthermore, the article analyses the causes of the discrepancy between contemporary “living” and official toponymy of the cadaster.
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