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| Onomastics or onomatology is the study of proper names of all kinds and the origins of names. The word is Greek: ὀνοματολογία (from ὄνομα (ónoma) "name"). Toponymy or toponomastics, the study of place names, is one of the principal branches of onomastics. Anthroponomastics is the study of personal names. For some cultures (and celebrities), only one name is needed to indicate a certain person... Read enhanced Wikipedia article |
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Onomastics
Onomastics or onomatology is the study of proper names of all kinds and the origins of names. The word is Greek: ὀνοματολογία (from ὄνομα (ónoma) "name"). -
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Paronymic attraction
In etymology, generally in onomastics, a paronymic attraction is the alteration of a word on its paronym. -
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Institute for Dialectology, Onomastics and Folklore Research in Umeå
DAUM, the Institute for Dialectology, Onomastics and Folklore Research in Umeå, is a Swedish governmental archive bureau which collects, preserves, works up and provides information about dialects, place names, folklore culture and local history. DAUM is part of the Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore. -
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International Council of Onomastic Sciences
The International Council of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS) is an international academic organization of scholars with a special interest in onomastics, the scientific study of names (e.g. place-names, personal names, and proper names of all other kinds). The work of the scholars of ICOS -
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Anthroponymy
Anthroponomastics (or anthroponymy), a branch of onomastics, is the study of anthroponyms (<Gk. anthropos, 'man', + onuma, 'name'), the names of human beings. Anthroponyms often preserve lexical elements that have dropped out of the standard lexicon of a language.
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