For my research I collected the materials from libimseti.cz website which is the most popular chat portal in the Czech Republic. I examined 8000 users’ nicknames between the age of 15 and 19. Based on the profound research we can state that most of the Czech youngsters use Czech or English hypocorism as their nicknames coming from their own first name and they apply some punctuation marks or numbers that can refer to the users’ age but mainly these are to differentiate the identical nicknames only. The teens quite often adjust positive or negative prefixes to their nicknames. Often celebrities’ names – mainly well-known singers’ or top football players’ names – are used as nicknames.
The article was inspired by two recent collective monographs (Divičanová et al., 2015, 2017) dedicated to the surnames used by the families of Slovak origin living in Békéscsaba (Békešská Čaba) and Tótkomlós (Slovenský Komlóš) as the centres of the Slovak ethnic community in south-eastern Hungary whose members started to settle in this part of the historical “Lower Land” as early as in the first quarter of the 18th century. In the above-mentioned publications, hundreds of surnames were analysed from various onomastic aspects (structural types, origin, onymic motivation, etc.). In this study, the author focuses on some questions of etymology and presents alternative explanations for about 30 surnames. In his opinion, some of the surnames under discussion may reflect autochthonous substantial formations otherwise not attested as common nouns in the Slovak language (Hamza, Holok, Lászik, Losjak, Rotyis, Szpluvák); for other surnames, the author identifies possible sources in various foreign languages historically used in this part of Central Europe, i. e., Hungarian (Balán, Csilek, etc.), Romanian (Drimba, Opra, Tirják, etc.), German (Baiczer, Gofjár, Majzik, Matajsz, etc.), Latin (Filadelfi), Polish (Kendra) and Slovene (Raspotnik).
This contribution offers an overview of the formation of Slovak onomastics as a scientific discipline from the 1940's onwards when the foundations of theoretical onomastics were laid. In 1964, the Slovak onomastic commission was founded which was able to organize a series of onomastic conferences. Unfortunately, no special department for research of proper names has been established at 'Jazykovedny ustav Ludovita Stura' of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.
The paper introduces a two-volume publication entitled 'Slavonic Onomastics. Encyclopedia' (SOE), written by a collective of authors and released in Poland (2002-2003). SOE includes editor's preface by E. Rzetelska-Feleszko, introductory chapter by R. Srámek, 24 'hyperchapters' (entries) and supplements. Each entry is composed of 12 chapters devoted to onomastics and onymy in Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia; attention is paid to onymy of the Slavs in Germany, too. SOE contains parts that discuss various onomastic issues (history, theory, terminology, etymology, anthroponymy, toponymy, chrematonymy, language contacts etc.). SOE is predominantly based on a comparative background and represents a first synthetic description of proper names in slavonic linguistics.
Autorka proponuje schemat opisu i analizy leksyki związanej z polem semantycznym ‘przestrzeń’. Punktem wyjścia jest założenie, że badania etnolingwistyczne powinny być skierowane na opis podmiotowego wyobrażenia przestrzeni, czyli subiektywny czynnik recepcji przestrzeni. W trakcie analizy faktów językowych badacz ma do czynienia z jednostkami poziomu wyjściowego (powierzchniowego), czyli poziomu bezpośredniej manifestacji językowej wyobrażeń przestrzennych, z którego możliwe jest przejście na poziom parametrów bazowych kształtujących model przestrzeni. Wymaga to uogólnienia podstawowych charakterystyk semantycznych jednostek poziomu wyjściowego. Koniecznym warunkiem analizy na tym etapie jest reprezentatywność bazy materiałowej. Poziom ten można uważać za pozajęzykowy, jednak przejście do niego prowadzi przez etap pośredni – najbardziej interesujący dla badań w sferze lingwistyki antropologicznej, łączący czynniki językowe i pozajęzykowe i dotyczący charakteru wypełnienia sieci parametrów. Zaproponowaną analizę autorka przeprowadza na materiale leksyki gwarowej i onomastyki rosyjskiej Północy oraz przedstawia rezultaty analizy pola semantycznego ‘przestrzeń’ w rosyjskiej toponimii ludowej.
EN
The article proposes a schema for a description and analysis of the lexis of space. The starting point is the assumption that ethnolinguistic research should be directed towards a description of a subject-related image of space, i.e. a subjective factor in the reception of space. As language facts are being analyzed, the linguist deals with units of the initial (surface) level: the level of the direct linguistic manifestation of spatial images, from which it is possible to pass on to the level of base elements shaping the model of space. This requires a generalization of the basic semantic characteristics of the units of the initial level. The necessary condition for analysis at this stage is the representativeness of the material collected for analysis. The level can be considered as extra-linguistic, but the transfer to it leads through an intermediate level, the most interesting one for anthropological linguistics, connecting linguistic and extra-linguistic factors and describing realization of the network of parameters. The analysis is based on folk-dialectal lexis and onomastics of the Russian North as well as presenting the results of the analysis of the semantic field of 'space' in Russian folk toponymy.
Onomastics as an independent linguistic discipline was also formed and developed through studies, articles and comments on current orthographic problems of proper names by Slovak linguists and onomasticians in the Slovenská reč journal. In this article, we have tried to show this development at least partially. We have focused on the solution of theoretical, methodological, etymological and orthographic issues in the research of proper names. We have characterized the works dealing with analyses of onymic lexis and containing synthesizing results of these analyses within the framework of individual onomastic branches, basic types of proper names and thematic areas. We compared the proposed solutions to the problematic phenomena discussed within the state of the art and its results at present.
In the Slovak onomastics, there are several terms for unofficial anthroponyms, such as historical nickname, a living name, an individual characteristics or a nickname. Some of them are supposed to be synonymous, but many others differ in some aspects of their meanings. The paper deals with their more accurate characterization as well as with their comparison.
Neologisms are words, meanings or phrases that have recently been coined, generally do not appear in any dictionary, but may be used widely or within certain communities. They appear in every language, and Czech have thousands of them. They are often use to make the text more attractive, modern. In this article special attention is given to the nomina agentis i nomina attributiva (personalia) and their morphological, semantic structure of the new words. They are very often English words brought to Czech language and formed with the typical Czech suffix or a Czech words formed with the Czech bound forms.
The paper presents some contemporary Chinese personal names and analyses nine types of them. The nine types are the names: (1) reflecting parents’ hopes; (2) with lexemes denoting natural objects, living space and jewels; (3) describing circumstances of birth; (4) denoting time of birth; (5) denoting seniority and generation; (6) based on toponyms; (7) derived from names of famous persons; (8) based on excerptions; (9) lexically connected with surnames. Each of the names analysed belongs to at least one of the four major categories: (1) commendatory names express parents’ wishes for child’s qualities or its future life; (2) commemorative names commemorate persons, events, circumstances or places; (3) descriptive names denote person’s appearance, character or age; (4) associative names describe a person by association with the person’s place of birth, time of birth or by association with a proverb or a work of fiction. The present deliberations are illustrated with 37 personal names.
The author argues the significance of interdisciplinary research and co-operation among the different scientific branches when creating a complex image of scientific research. The author finds the common points with history, ethnology, dialectology, and folkloristics by means of the various examples of onomastic research done in Slovakia. The research results of the aforementioned sciences are a part of the broad pan-Slavonic research and they have become an important part of Slovak slavistics, too.
This article presents proper names of restaurants in Opava. The analysis demonstrates that the ways of nominalisation are based on onymisation and transonymisation, applied to diffrent types of proper names. The presented classification is based on motivational models. The author attempts to answer the following questions: why restaurants are given their names? Who uses such names? Do those names carry any information?
Slovak Onomastics in International Context. The Slovak onomastics is distinguished by several characteristic traits: it takes active part in the development of onomastic theory; it attempts to merge theory and practice in heuristic tasks and in onymic analyses; real-life onymy as used in communication and onymic phenomena as represented within a system are considered as two sides of the same coin. All these characteristics are included in the designation Slovak Onomastic School.
Theoretically and methodologically, it is based on Saussure’s thesis of language as a system that consists of parts. Onym maps on of recording semantic symptoms, resp. content-semantic categories. It captures semantic qualities based on functional members that depict the circumstances of a creation of onym. The basic structure in modelling of onyms is the model. The model can be mapped according to frequency, analysed in terms of content by focusing on functional members, formally classified and fix the recorded data statistically. By generalization on the basis of the semantic field, it is possible to create more complex and sophisticated structures. There are types of those categories of onyms, resp. paradigm of model or paradigm of types of onym models, types of models and categories of models. Temporally, we set aside two stages: in the 1st stage since the 1970s, modelling was carried out on animate personal names, oikonyms and oikonyms. In the 2nd stage from the 2nd decade of the 21st century is realized by modelling of chrematonyms. Modelling of onyms clarifies the semantic circumstances of the origin of proper name, which in the final form of onym formation are weakened by focusing onym on the designation of one particular onymic object, one particular onymic social reality.
In the first part, general theoretical principles of Cucko's book are analyzed and the author of the present paper states the latter represents the fundamental work of the Slavic diachronic onomastic research. In the second part, the author tries to suggest how to step beyond the actual anthroponymy now existing in Transcarpathian Ukraine toward an earlier anthroponymic system by means of the onomastic theory that has recently been developed in the Slovak onomastics.
The first part of the article presents the advancement of the studies in literary onomastics, particularly focusing on the so-called breakthrough periods, important for the development of this discipline. The second part concentrates on the analysis of the onymy of a number of selected prose texts, especially the novel by Stefan Chwin Zloty pelikan ('Golden Pelican'). Its aim is to show a potential direction of the development in the methodology of onomastic studies, including the latest findings of the contemporary literary studies, especially the theory of literature.
Contemporary onomastics made progress in interpretation of proper nouns, especially in conception of proper name that is viewed semiotically as a linguistic sign sui generis. Proper noun represents relevant onymic system. Study of onymic sign content enables more exact placing of ethnonyms (folk-names) and nouns denoting persons according to their place of abode into transitory area between common noun and proper noun (close to common noun). Stur's conception of proper noun as a separate thing of a certain class is significant for analysis of this lexical layer. In the contrary to antic tradition of the period, Benolak and Stur took into consideration also place of the folk-names and names denoting persons according to their place of abode. Conclusions of their considerations are not identical, but the fact, that both of them explained this question in relation particular - general (common noun), not particular - individual (proper noun), is motivating.
The author analyzes the system of the ancient Greek anthroponymy from the point of view of the modern Slovak onomastics. The basic functional element is represented by the first name, further potential elements being the patronymicum and the demoticum (the name reflecting one's domicile). Each of these functional elements possesses a different structure of onymic markers. In the process of onymization, every part of speech may become a noun, whereas the grammatical gender gives way to the natural one. Majority of the Greek personal names consist of the linguistic forms which have no counterpart in the appelative lexics.
Historian J. Ochmanski was the first to introduce the statement about Baltic heritage in Oboltsy region (Tolochinski & Sennenski 'raion' of the Vitebsk region (Oblast)). He considered that the Oboltsy Baltic heritage is autochthonous by nature. A.P. Nepokupnyi considered that the Lithuanian occupation of Oboltsy is the most trustworthy as well as the occupation of other West Slavonic lands. The article presents and investigates the data of the complex investigations in 2006 the main aim of which is to prove the J. Ochmanski hypothesis as well as to find new data in the above mentioned region. Combination of field investigations together with the historic and linguistic archive files permitted the authors to find some new aspects of the Baltic-Slavonic relations on the territory of Western Belarus. ncient settlement situated on the left tributary of the river Obolyanka near Kleban village (its historic name is Old Oboltsy) became one of the most significant discoveries. By its appearance and analogies in the Vitebsk Podvine and the Orsha Podneprove the settlement can be attributed to the third quarter of the 1st millennium AD. The question of its earlier and late existence is still opened. 0,3 km. to the West of the settlement on the bank of the same Obolyanka tributary there is a place where the Catholic Oboletskii church was situated till the middle of the XX century. Due to archaeological data the cultural layer contains ceramics of the XIV-XVI centuries and overgrowth. This allows us to consider though with some hesitation that the Oboletskii court of Grand Dukeof Lithuania was situated there. Taking into consideration the fact that the Grand Duke Yagailo (Jagiello) as the founder of the Oboltsy Church in 1387 the remains of the first Catholic church can also be found here. It can be considered that in XIV-XVI centuries the Oboltsy administrative, political and cultural center in the upper stream of Obolyanka was founded on the place of the previously reinforced settlement that was the center of the tribal or perhaps even early state power. While investigating inter-confessional relations in Oboltsy it was discovered that interrelations between anthroponomy of the Baltic origin and the Catholic religion (that is typical for central part of Belarus) made significantly difficult to find the Baltic heritage there.In this connection the linguistic, chronological and geographic analyses of the anthroponomy were carried out. The family names of the Baltic origin found in Oboltsy region are the collection of different chronologic layers. The most ancient layer, identified by J. Ochmanski is the constant of anthroponomy fund. They were constant during four-five centuries and consolidated in the modern Belarus names as well as in the region toponymy. A part of the names is connected with the big clans and migration of their representatives in XVII-XVIII centuries from the eastern part of Belarus. The latest layer of the Lithuanian names is connected with the Lithuanian colonization movement in the XIX century on the territory of the western part of Vitebsk region. The strong concentration of the Baltic (Lithuanian) names in Oboltsy, Smoliany, Shupeny region fixed in XV-XVII centuries proves the constant process of the Baltic names distribution in this region.
The article is an attempt to indicate the most important linguistic means of construing 'onomastyka' (onomastics) and 'onomasta' (onomastician) in texts published in the 49 issues of 'Onomastica'. In it onomastics is understood in the framework of the postpositivistic philosophy of science: as a text-creating practice situated in the model of scientific communication, in which the construing of the senses is conditioned by factors beyond the subject matter, among others the local and historically variable socio-cultural context. The authoress indicates several constant, affectively and axiologically marked conceptual antonyms on which the discourse of onomastics is based, among them 'center/periphery', 'knowledge/ignorance', 'we/they', 'subordination/independence', as well as their textual equivalents. The existence of such a binary structure in the texts of onomasticians is an effect of the hybrid character of this subdiscipline of the humanities, as well as a manifestation of anthropocentrism, ethnocentrism and egocentrism of the subjects forming this discourse.
The article deals with the linguistic form of ethnonyms and names of ethnic derivation in Polish translations of the New Testament (from the 16th to 20th centuries). The names of inhabitants are rendered in the translated texts as: 1) synthetic noun forms (names ending with -czyk,-anin, -in//-yn, preserving foreign suffixs, or without suffixes), as well as 2) syntactic analytic formations (common noun + toponymic adjective ending in -ski or a given name (or appellative) + prepositional expression). The author points out that the degree of use of one of the indicated methods for creating ethnonyms in a particular translation depends on three factors: 1) the basis of the translation (the Greek original or Latin Vulgate); 2) the translator's linguistic ability; 3) individual decision of the translator.
JavaScript is turned off in your web browser. Turn it on to take full advantage of this site, then refresh the page.