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Onomastics
Onomastics or onomatology is the study of the etymology, history, and use of proper
names.[1] An orthonym is the proper name of the object in question, the object of onomastic
study.
Onomastics can be helpful in data mining, with applications such as named-entity
recognition, or recognition of the origin of names.[2][3] It has also been used in historical
research to identify ethnic minorities within wider populations.[4][5]
Etymology
Onomastics originates from the Greek onomastikós (ὀνομαστικός, 'of or belonging to
naming'),[6][7] itself derived from ónoma (ὄνομα, 'name').[8]
Branches
Toponymy (or toponomastics), one of the principal branches of onomastics, is the study
of place names.
Anthroponomastics is the study of personal names.[9]
Literary onomastics is the branch that researches the names in works of literature and
other fiction.[10]
Socio-Onomastics is the study of names within a society or culture.
See also
Ancient Greek personal names
Extinction of surnames
Hydronym
Mononymous persons
Naming convention
-onym, listing the technical kinds of names
Organizations
American Name Society
English Place-Name Society
Guild of One-Name Studies
International Council of Onomastic Sciences
Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland
UNGEGN Toponymic Guidelines
United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names
References
1. "onomastics" (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Onomastics?s=t) . Random House Webster's
Unabridged Dictionary.
2. Carsenat, Elian (2013). "Onomastics and Big Data Mining". arXiv:1310.6311 (https://arxiv.org/abs/131
0.6311) [cs.CY (https://arxiv.org/archive/cs.CY) ].
3. Mitzlaff, Folke; Stumme, Gerd (2013). "Onomastics 2.0 - The Power of Social Co-Occurrences".
arXiv:1303.0484 (https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.0484) [cs.IR (https://arxiv.org/archive/cs.IR) ].
4. Crymble, Adam (2017-02-09). "How Criminal were the Irish? Bias in the Detection of London
Currency Crime, 1797-1821" (https://doi.org/10.1080%2F03058034.2016.1270876) . The London
Journal. 43: 36–52. doi:10.1080/03058034.2016.1270876 (https://doi.org/10.1080%2F03058034.2
016.1270876) .
5. Crymble, Adam (2015-07-26). "A Comparative Approach to Identifying the Irish in Long Eighteenth-
Century London" (http://researchprofiles.herts.ac.uk/portal/services/downloadRegister/873833
2/Irish_Surnames_in_London_2014_repositoryVersion.pdf) (PDF). Historical Methods. 48 (3): 141–
152. doi:10.1080/01615440.2015.1007194 (https://doi.org/10.1080%2F01615440.2015.1007194) .
hdl:2299/16184 (https://hdl.handle.net/2299%2F16184) . S2CID 161595975 (https://api.semanticscho
lar.org/CorpusID:161595975) .
6. ὀνομαστικός (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%
3Aentry%3Do%29nomastiko%2Fs) , Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon,
on Perseus project
7. "Online Etymology Dictionary" (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=onomastics&searchm
ode=none) . etymonline.com. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
8. ὄνομα (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aent
ry%3Do%29%2Fnoma) , Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
project
9. Bruck, Gabriele (2009). The Anthropology of Names and Naming.
10. Alvarez-Altman, Grace; Burelbach, Frederick M. (1987). Names in Literature: Essays from Literary
Onomastics Studies.
External links
Look up onomastics in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Onomastics (https://curlie.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Onomastics/) at Curlie
Lexicon of Greek Personal Names (http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/) , a Major Research Project
of the British Academy, Oxford, contains over 35,000 published Greek names.
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