Social:Onomastics
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Short description: Study of proper names of all kinds and the origins of names
Onomastics (or, in older texts, onomatology) is the study of the etymology, history, and use of proper names.[1] An alethonym ('true name') or an orthonym ('real name') is the proper name of the object in question, the object of onomastic study.
Onomastics can be helpful in data mining, with applications such as named-entity recognition, or recognition of the origin of names.[2][3] It is a popular approach in historical research, where it can be used to identify ethnic minorities within wider populations[4][5] and for the purpose of prosopography.
Etymology
Onomastics originates from the Greek onomastikós (Ancient Greek:),[6][7] itself derived from ónoma (Ancient Greek:).[8]
Branches
- Toponymy (or toponomastics), one of the principal branches of onomastics, is the study of place names.
- Anthroponomastics is the study of personal names.[9]
- Literary onomastics is the branch that researches the names in works of literature and other fiction.[10]
- Socio-onomastics or Re-Onomastics is the study of names within a society or culture.
See also
- Ancient Greek personal names
- Extinction of surnames
- Hydronym
- Mononymous persons
- Naming convention
- -onym, listing the technical kinds of names
- Organizations
- American Name Society
- English Place-Name Society
- Guild of One-Name Studies
- International Council of Onomastic Sciences
- Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland
- UNGEGN Toponymic Guidelines
- United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names
References
- ↑ "onomastics" . Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
- ↑ Carsenat, Elian (2013). "Onomastics and Big Data Mining". arXiv:1310.6311 [cs.CY].
- ↑ Mitzlaff, Folke; Stumme, Gerd (2013). "Onomastics 2.0 - The Power of Social Co-Occurrences". arXiv:1303.0484 [cs.IR].
- ↑ Crymble, Adam (2017-02-09). "How Criminal were the Irish? Bias in the Detection of London Currency Crime, 1797-1821". The London Journal 43: 36–52. doi:10.1080/03058034.2016.1270876.
- ↑ Crymble, Adam (2015-07-26). "A Comparative Approach to Identifying the Irish in Long Eighteenth-Century London". Historical Methods 48 (3): 141–152. doi:10.1080/01615440.2015.1007194. http://researchprofiles.herts.ac.uk/portal/services/downloadRegister/8738332/Irish_Surnames_in_London_2014_repositoryVersion.pdf. Retrieved 2017-08-27.
- ↑ ὀνομαστικός , Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus project
- ↑ "Online Etymology Dictionary". etymonline.com. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=onomastics&searchmode=none.
- ↑ ὄνομα , Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus project
- ↑ Bruck, Gabriele (2009). The Anthropology of Names and Naming.
- ↑ Alvarez-Altman, Grace; Burelbach, Frederick M. (1987). Names in Literature: Essays from Literary Onomastics Studies.
External links
- Onomastics at Curlie
- Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, a Major Research Project of the British Academy, Oxford, contains over 35,000 published Greek names.
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