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Macedonian Onomastics — Macedonian language On the Macedonian Matters by Krst … Wikipedia
ancient Italic people — ▪ people Introduction any of the peoples diverse in origin, language, traditions, stage of development, and territorial extension who inhabited pre Roman Italy, a region heavily influenced by neighbouring Greece (ancient Greek civilization) … Universalium
Onomastics — or onomatology is the study of proper names of all kinds and the origins of names. The words are from the Greek: ὀνομαστικός (onomastikos), of or belonging to naming [1][2] and ὀνοματολογία (onomatologia), from ὄνομα (ónoma) name .[3] Toponymy or … Wikipedia
English Place-Name Society — The English Place Name Society is a learned society based in England concerned with toponomastics, in other words, the study of place names (toponyms). Its survey covers the historic counties of England. Its scholars aim to explain the origin and … Wikipedia
Ligures — The Ligures (singular Ligus or Ligur; English: Ligurians, Greek: polytonic|Λίγυες) were an ancient people who gave their name to Liguria, which once stretched from Northern Italy into southern Gaul. According to Plutarch they called themselves… … Wikipedia
Petar Skok — (IPA2|pětar skôk; March 1, 1881, Jurkovo Selo on Žumberak February 3, 1956, Zagreb) is a Croatian linguist, and one of the world s foremost onomastics experts.From 1892 to 1900 he attended Royal gymnasium in Rakovac near the Karlovac. At the… … Wikipedia
Georg Holzer — (born 1957 in Vienna) is Austrian Slavist and Indo Europeanist.After graduating Slavic Studies and Indo European Studies at the University of Vienna, he earned his doctorate in 1982. Immediately after he started a three year work as a lecturer… … Wikipedia
name — namer, n. /naym/, n., v., named, naming, adj. n. 1. a word or a combination of words by which a person, place, or thing, a body or class, or any object of thought is designated, called, or known. 2. mere designation, as distinguished from fact:… … Universalium
toponymy — noun lexicological study of place names; a branch of onomastics Syn: toponomastics See Also: toponymic … Wiktionary
toponomastic — adjective Of or pertaining to toponomastics; toponymic … Wiktionary
