Formální a motivační aspekty moravských a slezských anoikonym obsahujících osobní jméno Jan

• Authors: Marta Šimečková

Title variants

EN

Formal and motivational aspects of Moravian and Silesian minor place names containing the personal name Jan

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The paper deals with representative aspects of Moravian and Silesian minor place names containing the personal name Jan (English John). In the first part, formal features of the respective anoikonyms are described, i. e. dialectal phonology and morphology. Then the author focuses on historical and local variation (including communication variants), motivation and structure of representative names. Qualitative data analysis showed the most popular motivation was a relation to local persons named Jan associated with the place ‒ property of the named object or a location near this property. Objects have rarely been named by local persons associated with the place, e. g. a forest named by his founder. Sometimes the reason for naming is not known, because there is not a record of the namegiver’s motivation. In terms of structural analysis, two-word (or multiple-word) names predominate, especially the combination of possessive adjectives derivated from the personal name Jan and originally the common name of the object (e. g. vrch ‚hill‘, důl ‚mine‘). Other structural types are less common.

Keywords

CS

onomastika; pomístní jména; antroponyma; dialektologie; strukturní typy; motivace pojmenování

EN

onomastics; minor place names; personal names; dialectology; structural types; name motivation

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta onomastica
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 62
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 130-139
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Marta Šimečková

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