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Study of proper names of all kinds
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 (ὀνομαστικός , 'of or belonging to naming'),
[6]
[7] itself derived from ónoma (ὄνομα , 'name').
[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
Organizations
References
^
"onomastics"
Archived 2016-03-04 at the
Wayback Machine .
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 .
hdl :
2299/19710 .
^ Crymble, Adam (2015-07-26).
"A Comparative Approach to Identifying the Irish in Long Eighteenth-Century London" (PDF) . Historical Methods . 48 (3): 141–152.
doi :
10.1080/01615440.2015.1007194 .
hdl :
2299/16184 .
S2CID
161595975 .
Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-03-14. Retrieved 2017-08-27 .
^
ὀνομαστικός
Archived 2020-08-05 at the
Wayback Machine , Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon , on Perseus project
^
"Online Etymology Dictionary" . etymonline.com .
Archived from the original on 27 August 2017. Retrieved 26 July 2015 .
^
ὄνομα
Archived 2021-02-25 at the
Wayback Machine , 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
Look up
onomastics in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.