Etymological formula in onomastics

Ever since the foundation of onomastics as a scientific discipline of humanities the problem of etymological explanation of names has been the main purpose of the ono mastic research. So far, little has been done in the field of the methodology of research in this respect. The historical comparative method of etymologizing names was mechanically transferred from the field of appel-Iatives with the ultimate purpose -to deduct nomina propria from corresponding nomina appellativa. The more rcent trend in etymological research to include onomastic material in the gnerai etymological dictionaries found its ardent supporters in theory as well as in practice. In this connection the sound and well motivated opinion of E. Eichler might be quoted from his article Namen-Jorschung und Etymologie in der Slawistik, in Wiss. Zeitschrijt der Karl-Marx-Universitt, Leipzig, 13, 1964, pp. 379-381 : (( Nicht zufllig sind es gerade Bezlaj und Rudnyckyj, die fur eine enge enge Verknpfung von Etymologie und Onomastik einterten ; as Verfasser namenkundlicher Monographien haben sie schon frh die Bedeutung der Onomastik fur die Erkenntnis des urslavischen Wortschatzes hervorgehoben. Im Wrterbuch 1 Rudnyckyjs werden nicht nor Orts-und Familiennamen aus der Sprache der Gegenwart, sond ern auch historische Belege aufgenommen. As in other fields of humanities and social sciences the concept of aworking formula (model) becomes not only more and more necessary in methodological respect, but also more and more elaborated and advanced

Linguistics · Onomastics · History · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Medical and Biological Sciences · Philosophy

• Place–Name Literature, United States and Canada 1969–1971

  Open Access•Pauline A Seely, Richard B Sealock•Names•1972

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