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Der Ortsname Wellucken
No full textThe germanic word well, synonyme with spring, which has disappeared from the standard german, has left its traces not only in the dutch-english-low-german area but in bavarian place-names, too
Stand und Perspektiven der ungarischen Namenkunde
No full textThe study provides an outline in German language of the most important results of geographic name research in Hungary. Its main objective is to assist colleagues who have no information about research projects in Hungary because to date they have hardly been dealt with in summaries published in the main world languages (English, German, and French). Our study consists of eight chapters. The first deals with Hungarian publishing forums, onomastics congresses, the major sites of name databases as well as with research sites. The second discusses theoretical issues, while the fourth gives an outline of descriptive name studies. The fifth chapter provides an insight into the results of historical toponymy whereas the sixth and the seventh inform the reader about the application of research methods in respect of name geography and name sociology. The last, i.e. the eighth chapter imparts to the reader the domestic problems related to applied place name research
Georgische Kirchennamen
No full textDas Christentum, das sich in Südkaukasien in den ersten Jahrhunderten vor allem in der Bevölkerung der Städte und des flachen Landes verbreitet hatte, wurde zu Beginn des 4.Jh. im Staat Iberien (Kartli) zur offiziellen Religion erklärt, gleichzeitig ist wohl auch die offizielle Christianisierung Westgeorgiens vollzogen worden. Dem Gottesdienst stehen im Land Tausende von Kirchengebäuden zur Verfügung, die bekannte Namen tragen, während die weit zahlreicheren Kirchenruinen oft nicht mehr den ursprünglichen Namen führen, sondern Ersatznamen erhielten oder gänzlich namenlos geworden sind. Vielleicht vermag diese nur locker auflistende Übersicht zu eingehenderen Untersuchungen anzuregen
Datenbankbasierte Publikationen in der Onomastik
No full textThe documentation of names in large printed collections (in form of highly structured articles including the name\u27s history, its etymology and variation etc.) has always been an important task of onomastic research. This paper presents a new, more effective way of publishing in onomastics, consisting of a combination of a database (AskSam 5) and a typesetting system (LaTeX). The input of the typesetting system is generated by an output program of the database. Some advantages of this solution are discussed: the independence of the data from the layout in the printed book, which allows to change the layout whenever needed (e.g. when combining different projects), and a higher data security by using basic ASCII code in the database combined with a markup language for professional typesetting. All corrections are made in the database. This keeps the database in accordance with the correct, finally printed text and opens new perspectives in using the data for additional projects, e.g. for indexes or other forms of publication (e.g. popular or short versions). All steps of this new approach are presented: the required features of the database, how to produce the printfile, and how to make the corrections. A detailed discussion of the advantages and the resulting savings of money and time aims to encourage the readers to follow our solution
Pflanzenbezeichnungen in Siedlungsnamen des altpolabischen Sprachgebietes Brandenburgs: Ein Beitrag zu einem altpolabischen Lexikon
No full textThe article deals with the explanation of toponyms in the territory of Brandenburg, which was populated by Slavs approximately from the 6th to the 14th century. The place-names of Polabian origin in this territory could be derived also from appellatives denoting plants as there are trees (Buckow/beech-tree; Damme/oak- tree; Jabel/apple), bushs and shrubs (Leest/hazel; Kallinchen/elder; Friesack/heath), some kind of grasses (Ziethen/rush; Weisen/reed), berries (Preußnitz/cranberry), flowers (Wust/thistle; Löcknitz/water-lily) and last but not least mushrooms (Feldgrieben/mushroom; Schmarsow/morel). Approximatly 50 toponyms are derived in this way. This article can also give a contribution to the description of the flora of the territory of Brandenburg in earlier times
Gewässernamenforschung - Rückblick und Ausblick
No full textThe project \u27Archiv für die Gewässernamen Deutschlands und Europas\u27 established on the \u27Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz\u27 since 1960, has ended definitivly in 2005. On this occasion the author discusses first, what the research on hydronyms in the middle of Europe has achieved in the last forty years, and secondly, what is to do in the future. Finally he recommends the foundation of a Centre for Onomastics in Germany as a partner of the other Centres of Onomastics in Europe, resident in the Academies or the Universities
Ortsnamen und Wanderungen der Völker
No full textPeople who leave their home, take their names with them. That is the reason why place names in new settlements can contain remembrances of the language spoken in the former home area. This essay will among others deal with the German emigration overseas; the German settlement in the East; the spreading of the East-Slavic settlement area; the occupation and settlement of England through Western Germanic tribes, and the home and dispersal of Germanic tribes. For this purpose, place names are important, maybe even the most important witnesses of migration
Gasse und Straße als Grundwörter in frühen deutschen Straßennamen
No full textAlthough the handbooks unanimously maintain that -gasse was the second element in compound medieval streetnames in the High German area of Southern and Central Germany, whereas -strate was the predominant second element in streetnames in the Low German area of Northern Germany, a closer look at Regensburg and Vienna documents surprisingly reveals that at least in these important South German cities -straße and not -gasse was the generic in the earliest German streetnames. It was only from the late 15th century onwards that -gasse began to replace -straße in Regensburg and Vienna. Later, in the 19th century, the word Gasse was connected with the idea of a narrow, unimportant street and therefore -gasse again made way for -straße, at least in Regensburg. An overview over the German-speaking area shows that in medieval documents -straße predominated along the river Danube, whereas in South-Western Germany and Switzerland as well as in Central Germany -gasse was favoured. The early appearance of -straße in Cologne and Leipzig is seen as the result of an influence of the more prestigious Low German -strate area
Neue Ergebnisse der Jordanes-Forschung und die Namenkunde: Zugleich Besprechung von: Arne Soby CHRISTENSEN, Cassiodorus Jordanes and the History of the Goths. Studies in a Migration Myth, Kopenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen 2002, 391 Seiten
No full textApart from the Germania of Tacitus, Jordanes´s History of the Goths is the preeminent source for Germanic history. Many opinions of nowadays scholars are based on his accounts. Of the utmost significance are the effects in the field of onomastics. In the end the idea developed by R. Much that the names of various Germanic tribes are nicknames can be tracked down to Jordanes´s explanation of the name Gepids. In a similar way modern scholarship took his narrative of the migrations of the Goths as a veracious description of remote realities in the past, Christensen\u27s book unsettles the prevailing opinion of early Gothic history. This essay deals with the consequences of these findings on onomastics