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Das Vor-Heilige und das Anti-Heilige in Großpolen am Beispiel des Toponyms Łysa Góra [Kahlberg] und seinesgleichen
No full textThe paper deals with the techniques of sanctifying space through the toponym Łysa Góra [Kahlberg] and similar names. Originally, these forms illustrated the mythology of former residents living in a territory and their system of beliefs. According to these beliefs, hilltops and peaks of mountains represent the cosmological heaven, the centre of the local space (the pre-sacred). In the secondary way, the considered proper names are an example of the influence that new Christian religion exerted upon the inhabitants of the given space. During the Counter-Reformation this religion consolidated the awareness of the force of the infernal power (the anti-sacred)
Wortforschung und Namenetymologie
No full textSome statements about the relations between general lexicon and onomasticon, etymology and history of words and the question, how far a name must be traced back etymologically. The examples are chosen from romance languages and German
Der erzgebirgische Ortsname Pobershau - ein schwieriger Fall
No full textThe article deals with an apparantly clear and uncomplicated place name: Pobershau in the central Erzgebirge region. By examining the early history of the settlement and the documentary records of its name, the author questions the different ways of interpretation put on it previously. He has his doubts about the name\u27s pattern of word formation. To his mind Pobershau does not contain the root -hau which in comparable toponyms of the region generally denotes clearings of woodland for farming. Instead, the name is closely connected with the key role of mining. To all appearances, a similar but obscure dialect word, denoting a dilapidated house or shed, was adapted to other names of the type ending in -hau. - With his argumentation the author brings not only a new etymology of Pobershau up to discussion but at the same time turns our attention to the importance of dialect words for a closer linguistic approach to later place names
Historisches Ortsverzeichnis und Historisches Ortsnamenbuch von Sachsen. Zwei Lexika - ein Wissenssystem
No full textIn 2001 the first edition of the “Historical Dictionary of Toponyms for Saxony” was published, the new edition of the “Lexicon of Places in Saxony” was released in 2006. The present article compares both standard works of Saxon regional history and historical cultural studies, describes synergies and draws the model of a common knowledge system in the digital world
Das Hispano-romanische Namenbuch und die Geschichte des iberoromanischen Personennamenschatzes
No full textThe first part of the paper is a presentation of a doctoral thesis Hispano-romanisches Namenbuch submitted at the University of Trier (to be published in 2009 in the series \u27Patronymica Romanica\u27 by Niemeyer, Tübingen). The thesis is dedicated to the personal names of pre-Roman, Greek and Latin-Romance etymology in the Christian North of the Iberian Peninsula in the medieval period (6th-12th centuries). Comments on primary sources and structure are followed by a sample article (*Aurundo) from the thesaurus. In the second part of the paper a particular aspect of the Ibero-Romance onomasticon, which is its multicultural etymolo- gical composition, is discussed. Examples of medieval and modern personal names typical for each etymological layer (pre-Roman, Latin, Hebrew, Visigothic, Arabic, Franconian, Gallo-Romance) conclude the survey
Schichten spanischer Familiennamen in Deutschland
No full textThe first stratum of Spanish surnames in Germany goes back to Spanish soldiers fighting on German soil during the wars of the 16th and 17th centuries, the second one to Jewish immigrants of Spanish (and Portuguese) origin, who settled down in Northern Germany around 1600, and the third one to workers\u27 immigration and exile in the second half of the 20th century. Special attention is given to the last stratum (problems connected with the use of telephone directories as a source, frequent Spanish surnames in present Germany, tendencies of linguistic integration)
Meinungsverschiedenheiten zu altsorbischen Ortsnamenformen. Zur Problematik bei der Rekonstruktion der Ausgangsformen sorbischer Ortsnamen in den Lausitzen
No full textThe article aims at demonstrating problems in connection with the process of reconstructing Old-Sorbian place names in the area of Upper and Lower Lusatia. On the basis of two books published in 2006 and 2008 by the well known onomast Walter WENZEL (Leipzig) and a critical contribution by the Sorbian linguist and specialist in etymologies Heinz Schuster- Šewc(Bautzen/Budysin) several important and necessary points of view regarding the past of more than thousand years in the tradition of place names are described and discussed
Fragwürdige Benennung. Der Anfangssatz von Goethes Roman \u27Die Wahlverwandtschaften\u27: Für Davide de Camilli zum 70. Geburtstag
No full textThe first sentence of Goethe\u27s \u27Elective Affinities\u27 poses many questions: Who is meant by the personal pronoun \u27we\u27 that calls a young baron Eduard? And are we to rely on that unusual literary naming procedure that intentionally destroys all fictional illusions? Further on in the novel we are informed that it is actually not a mysterious \u27we\u27, but rather that the wealthy baron himself, whose \u27real\u27 name was Otto, had chosen this name. This essay tries to elucidate the motives and intentions underlying Goethe\u27s ambiguous and capricious game which he plays with the reader\u27s expectations
Beziehungen zwischen slawischen Ortsnamentypen, Bodenwerten und Besiedlung. Dargestellt an der Oberlausitz: Mit zwei mehrfarbigen Karten
No full textIn our \u27Upper Lausitz Book of Place Names\u27 the Slavic place names are given on eight colered maps with reference to soil value, in order to be able to determine the historical classification of the types of Slavic place names more precisely and to draw conclusions concerning the history of land-settlements. As a result it appears that the patronymic place names ending in -ici and -owici, as well as the habitative names ending in -jane and -y only occur where the soil was good, with values ranging between 50 and 70 points on a scale of 10 to 100. Other place names, including those ending in -jb, -ow, -in etc. also appear in rare instances here, but occur predominantly in areas of poor quality soil with values ranging between 20 und 50 points. They are therefore to be considered as later formations. Thus the oldest areas of land-settlement can be defined quite accurately and separated from later land-settlements. Our article presents a summary of the section in our book of place names dealing with the history of land-settlement and is illustrated with two new maps
Eigennamen in der Welt zeitgenössischer Texte
No full textThe author presents her monography \u27Proper names in the world of text\u27 (original language Russian) in which an integrative approach is proposed, based on principles of text linguistics, narrative theory and literary onomastics. The immediate environments of proper names (microtextology) on the one hand, and the whole text as a space for realization and functioning of proper names (macrotextology) on the other hand are investigated on the material of the modern Russian fiction. Some new concepts and terms have been introduced and interpreted: onymic information, onymic anticipation and retardation (as main text strategies of name introducing), deconstructive function of proper name in text (in addition to proper name functions defined by D. LAMPING). The concept of namelessness in fiction and different metamorphoses of names in slang are also discussed