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STA
Approved

UPD
2012-03-23

DUT
namen

DAT
Also covers publications on first names indexed before 2006.

IND
1

MIS
onomastics: The study of proper names, including their forms and uses, especially the names of persons (Margaret, Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher) and places (Grantham, London, 10 Downing Street, the House of Commons). Although a proper name may be given to anything, the place-name and the personal name have received most attention in onomastics. The study of place-names (toponymy) is closely allied to geography, history, and related disciplines. The study of personal names (anthroponymy) is related to genealogy, sociology, and anthropology. Another subdiscipline is literary onomastics, which examines the use of proper names in literature, and often focuses on the names of characters in fiction (characternyms) (The Oxford Companion to the English Language, 1992)

PPN
294927131

UDC
801.311/.313

MRF
81`373.2

NT1
animal names
ethnological names
nicknames
personal names
place names
plant names

UF
onomastics
proper names

BSO
18.01.01 ONOMASTICS

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