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Spätmittelalterliche Personennamen im Bayerischen Vogtland: Die Namen des Urbars des Klosters St. Klara in Hof von 1499
Full text linkThis paper analyzes the personal names contained in the 1499 tax roll of the St. Klara Monastery at Hof, a town on the north-eastern border of Upper Franconia in Bavaria. At the end of the 15th century among the tenants of this monastery first names of Germanic etymology are already in the minority; names of foreign origin, exclusively saints’ names, are significantly more frequent. – In 1499 also in the rural anthroponymy of the Hof area the system of first name and surname is completely established. Most tenants bear surnames derived from nicknames. The next frequent groups are surnames derived from first names, mainly from first names of Germanic origin, followed by occupational names. Considerably less tenants bear surnames derived from place names or from special traits of their respective residences. All in all, the tax roll of the St. Klara Monastery gives a representative impression of the rural anthroponymy of a small South German area at the end of the Middle Ages only a short time before the Reformation
The new Personal Names Act in Sweden: some possible consequences for the name usage
Full text linkDas neue Personennamengesetz in Schweden – einige mögliche Konsequenzen für den Namengebrauch. Der Ausgangspunkt des Beitrages ist die ambivalente Relation zwischen einer relativ strikten Namengesetzgebung und den offiziellen Aufforderungen zur Namensänderung, die seit der ersten Namenverordnung im Jahre 1901 in Schweden vorliegen. Es werden im Beitrag einige problematische Bereiche des neuen Personennamengesetzes vom 01.07.2017 aufgegriffen, unter anderem wie gut das Gesetz an die multilinguale Gesellschaft des heutigen Schwedens angepasst ist und wie die beiden Möglichkeiten, Doppelnamen als Familienname zu benutzen und bei einer Namensänderung von den gewöhnlichsten Familiennamen frei wählen zu dürfen, auf den künftigen Familiennamenbestand einwirken wird
Ortsnamenwechsel im Raum Fulda
Full text linkThe essay deals with place name changes in the area Fulda. Although place and water names have a high degree of antiquity and continuity, names are changeable as linguistic entities. After an overview of the positions and observations on this phenomenon, represented by Wilhelm Arnold, Adolf Bach and Rudolf Schützeichel, as well as the impulses of the 1986 Bamberger Symposion on the subject of “place name change”, the term “name change” and its definitional blurring become first of all different types treated by “toponymic variation”. Finally, concrete examples from the Fulda area will be discussed and systematized
Langobardisch-fränkische Ortsnamen in Oberitalien: zu den toponymischen Typen Stuttgart, Gamundio und Herstall / Wardstall
Full text linkThe article deals with three types of Germanic toponyms found in Northern Italy. The type *stôde-gardôn ‘studfarm, horse breeding’, widespread in the Padanian plain between Torino and Verona, seems to have been in the beginning a Langobardic loanword in the regional Italo-Romance idioms. In contrast the place name Gamundio, denoting a royal fisc near Alessandria, has many early parallels in the Frankish regions of the Rhineland, of Lorraine and Belgium, like Sarreguemines/Saargemünd (F, Moselle), 711 Gamundiis < *ga-munthja ‘ground about the mouth of a river’. Also Guastalla north of Reggio- Emilia, 864 Wardi-stalla ‘watchtower, guard’, name of a royal court again, has narrow parallels in the regnum Francorum. So most probably these two toponyms had their origins in the terminology of the Franks
A lost Lancashire Place-Name: Lox(h)am
Full text linkDer verschwundene Lancashire-Ort Lox(h)am lag vermutlich in der Gemeinde (parish) Penwortham. Der Ortsname Lox(h)am, der als Familienname überlebt hat, ist ein Kompositum, das aus einem Fluss- oder Bachnamen Lox < britisch *Losko- ‘der Verbogene’ und der Dativpluralform hūsum ‘bei den Häusern’, die formal sowohl altenglisch wie altskandinavisch sein kann, gebildet wird. Die Bedeutung wäre dann ‘bei den Häusern, die in Verbindung mit dem Flüsschen Lox stehen’. In diesem Beitrag wird vielmehr eine skandinavische Etymologie für hūsum bevorzugt. Die Anwesenheit von Skandinaviern in diesem Teil von Lancashire in der Wikingerzeit wird durch das Vorhandensein von skandinavischen Personennamen in mittelalterlichen Privaturkunden bestätigt
Vitta und Fürling: zwei uralte Ortsnamen im nördlichen Hausruckviertel in Oberösterreich
Full text linkWhere there is the beginning of the mountainous range of the Scharten in the northern part of the Hausruckviertel in Upper Austria there are situated one opposite each other Vitta with originally three little farms and Fürling with only one big farm. There will be discussed the possible etymologies of there indoeuropean or celtic origin and their further romanic and german development
Zum Namen des Inns: Bekanntes und Vergessenes
Full text linkUsually, in the linguistic literature on the hydronym Inn two stems are reconstructed: PCelt. *Eno- and *Eni̯o-. These stems are thought to be derived from the root PIE *pen- ‘mud(dy), (standing) water’. It is not possible to decide, whether the name was coined in Proto-Celtic or is a celticized Pre-Proto-Celtic formation. An explanation for the parallel stem-formations was given already by Pokorny 1948/1949 and 1950/1951. His explanation seems widely to have fallen into oblivion. Both articles have hardly been quoted in scientific literature during the last quarter century. Only Greule 2014 makes use again at least of the older of the two articles, modifying their explanation, however. A root PIE *(h1)en- ‘water’, which has been used time and again to explain the river-name Inn, most probably never existed
Plädoyer für den möglichen besonderen Beitrag der Namenforschung zur Landesgeschichte: zwei Urkunden aus dem 11. und 12. Jahrhundert und ihre Aussagen zu Namen und Geschichte in der Mark Meißen
Full text linkTwo historical documents from the 11th and 12th centuries and their onomastic problems for historical and linguistic researches. The paper presents documents about an agreement between the famous bishop Benno of Meißen and a single noble slave named Bor. Some villages near the Elbe River were exchanged in the western territory not far from Dresden. Up till now a convincing localization of some of them is missing. And it is unusual that five villages are named with nine different names. Therefore the article treats some questions with consideration of historical and ecclesiastical connections. The results of an interdisciplinary analysis try to show the progress of Christianizing in the 11th century as well as the foundation of new villages in the 12th century. And a consequence of this development was that the majority of German speakers used new names for old and meanwhile enlarged settlement
Rezension zu Gabriele Rodriguez, Namen machen Leute
No full textGabriele Rodriguez, Namen machen Leute: Wie Vornamen unser Leben beeinflussen. München-Grünwald: Verlag Komplett-Media GmbH 2017, 248 S. – ISBN: 978-3-8312-0444-1, Preis: EUR 19,99 (DE)
Der alttschechische Text des „Sächsischen Weichbildrechts“: erläuternde Zusätze und okkasionelle Übernahme
Full text linkThe old-czech text of the „Saxon Weichbildrecht“: Occasional takeover and explanatory additions. Medieval legal terms from two texts of the extensive and branched group of sources of the Saxon-Magdeburg law are at the center of our article: the early-new-high-german and the old-czech text of „Saxon Weichbildrecht”. Transmission of legal terms of the early-new-highgerman text into the old-czech one stands in the focus of interest. In addition to predominantly adequate transmission of the legal terms, there can be found occasional takeover and explanatory additions. Conclusions at the end summarize the results