Onomastics

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Onomastics or onomatology is the study of the origin, history, and use of proper names.^[1] Onomastics originates from the Greek ὀνομαστικός (onomastikós), which translates to "of or belonging to naming",^[2][3] from ὄνομα (ónoma) meaning "name".^[4] Toponymy or toponomastics, the study of place names, is one of the principal branches of onomastics. Anthroponomastics is the study of personal names. Onomastics can be helpful in data mining, with applications such as named-entity recognition, or recognition of the origin of names.^[5] Literary onomastics is the branch that researches the names in works of literature and other fiction.^[6] An orthonym is the proper name of the object in question, the object of onomastic study.

See also

• American Name Society
• Ancient Greek personal names
• English Place-Name Society
• Etymology, the study of word origins
• Extinction of surnames
• Guild of One-Name Studies
• Hydronyms
• International Council of Onomastic Sciences
• naming convention
• -onym, listing the technical kinds of names
• Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland
• Mononymous persons
• UNGEGN Toponymic Guidelines
• United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names

References

• 1. "onomastics". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
• 2. ὀνομαστικός, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus project
• 3. Online Etymology Dictionary
• 4. ὄνομα, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus project
• 5. Carsenat, Elian (2013). "Onomastics and Big Data Mining". arXiv:1310.6311free to read [cs.CY].
• 6. Alvarez-Altman, Grace; Burelbach, Frederick M. (1987). Names in Literature: Essays from Literary Onomastics Studies.

External links

• [1] at DMOZ
• Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, a Major Research Project of the British Academy, Oxford, contains over 35,000 published Greek names.

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