onomastics

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 toponomastics, the study of place names, is one of the principal branches of onomastics. Anthroponomastics is the study of personal names.

See also

• American Name Society
• Anthroponymy
• English Place-Name Society
• Etymology, the study of word origins
• Extinction of surnames
• George R. Stewart, "the man who humanized onomastics" ([1])
• Guild of One-Name Studies
• Hydronyms
• International Council of Onomastic Sciences
• Jaroslav Rudnyckyj, a Ukrainian Canadian linguist and lexicographer with a specialty in etymology and onomastics
• Kazimierz Rymut, linguist and lexicographer with a specialty in etymology and onomastics (the study of proper Polish names).
• naming convention
• -onym, listing the technical kinds of names
• Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland
• Toponymy
• Mononymous persons

References

External links

Look up onomastics in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• Onomastics at the Open Directory Project
• Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, a Major Research Project of the British Academy, Oxford, contains over 35,000 published Greek names.