Vol. 15 (1993)

Published: 2026-06-22

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Névtani Értesítő 15. (1993)
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Preface

Előszó gyanánt

The editor

3-3
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Editor's Greeting

Mihály Hajdú celebrates his 60th birthday

Mária D. Mátai

9-17
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Articles

Do you like it? Do you dislike it? (Some early opinions on Hungarian first names)

Erzsébet E. Abaffy

17-18
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Obsolete words in recently collected geographical names

Imre Ábrahám

18-20
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Notes on a unique type of ship naming: canoe names

Géza Balázs

20-23
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The role of names in address forms used in the settlement of Rábaszentandrás (Győr-Moson-Sopron County)

Judit Balázs

23-26
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Some thoughts on onomastics based on the book Census Records and Church Visit Reports of Zala County (1745–1771), Vol. I., by Ferenc Ördög

Lajos Balogh

26-29
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The secret of the mysterious word eunedubelia in Anonymus's Gesta Hungarorum (c. 1200)

László Balogh

29-31
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Notes on the historical background of family names derived from settlement names

Jenő Barabás

31-33
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“Saint pilgrimage” ['pilgrimage to a place of worship'] – “glutton pilgrimage” ['pilgrimage to a church fair'] (Dialectal data on Hungarian pilgrimages)

Gábor Barna

33-38
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The origin of the family name Vén ['old'] in the settlement of Kalocsa (Bács-Kiskun County)

János Bárth

38-41
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Modifications of family names in the Hungarian community in Detroit (United States)

Csilla Bartha

41-44
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Compound personal names with sentence structures in Turkish

Imre Baski

45-50
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Remarks on hydronyms (Notes on the history of the Székely People)

Loránd Benkő

50-56
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Polysemy in Freemason lodge names (Meanings of the lodge name “Resurrexit”)

Zsuzsanna Ágnes Berényi

57-60
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What is your name?

Franciska Bertha

60-63
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Officially approved (registered) hypocoristic names

Ágnes Bíró

65-66
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Notes on a type of field names in the settlement of Körösladány (Békés County)

Ferenc Bíró

66-67
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What does the so-called velar “e” actually sound like?

Kálmán Bolla

68-76
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“This generation will not pass away…”

Béla Büky

76-78
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An analysis of the geographical names in the settlement of Törökbálint (Pest County)

Ildikó N. Császi

78-81
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Institutional names in Transcarpathia (Ukraine)

Katalin P. Csige

81-84
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Types of meaning structures in the place names of Csíkszentlélek (Leliceni, Romania)

Magdolna Csomortáni

85-87
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A note on an onomastic coincidence

László Deme

88-89
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Nádasd ['reedy' + -d diminutive suffix] – Nádaska ['reedy' + -ka diminutive suffix]

György Dénes

89-93
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Nicknames for cars

Pál Fábián

93-94
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Once again on kőszikla [kő 'stone' + rock 'szikla'] – about the toponym of Kamon-kő [Slavic kamenь 'stone' + Hungarian kő 'stone']

Katalin Faluvégi

95-97
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Onomastic research conducted by college students

Ferenc Farkas

97-100
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Notes on the typology of recent Hungarian company names

Katalin Fodor

100-105
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Official settlement names of Transcarpathia in 1939

Ervin Földi

106-108
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Perception of intonation patterns in light of pitch changes

Éva Földi

108-112
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Notes on some phonetic and morphological features of the Mátraalja dialect (Northern Hungary)

Lajos Fülöp

112-114
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“Elnevezőke” [elnevez 'to name' + the suffix -őke ] (A note on the noun-forming suffixes -óka, -őke)

Magdolna Gallasy

114-118
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A note on the old names for married women in Transylvania, Romania

Piroska B. Gergely

118-125
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River names in a bilingual environment

Károly Gerstner

125-127
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The semantic history of dora ['pork intestine']

Béla Gunda

128-131
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Some thoughts on the family names of Slovaks in Hungary

Anna Gyivicsán

131-134
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“eez myt mondaaz myes twgyok” ['this is what you are saying, and we also know'] (Palatal reference words in Hungarian)

Lea Haader

134-137
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Some lessons from the Onyest (Oneşti) list of names compiled during the 1866 land distribution

Péter Halász

137-141
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Under the pretext of the place name Kézd

Attila Hegedűs

141-144
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From the Göbölyhajtó út ['Beef catte drive route'] to the Déli autópálya ['Southern motorway']

Sándor Hévvízi

144-146
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The role of lexical split in etymological analysis (On the origin of the adjective magas ['tall'] (A magas eredetéről)

Katalin Horváth

147-150
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A brief overview of the spelling of street names from the last century to the present day

Ede Hőnyi

150-153
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Two Romanian place names of Hungarian origin denoting 'clearing': i̯ertaş, i̯ertoi̯, and their derivatives

Jenő Janitsek

153-156
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Hajdú and its relatives

Dezső Juhász

156-160
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Personal names derived from Romani words

Mátyás Kakuk

161-163
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The language of administration in the free royal town of Székesfehérvár (1688–1848)

István Kállay

163-165
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“Canonica visitatio” records as onomastic sources

Béla Kálmán

166-167
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Notes on the collection of place names in the Csenger district

Árpád Kálnási

167-170
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Names in locally evolved proverbs in the town of Csongrád

Imre Katona

170-172
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Notes on the history of indicating proper nouns

Borbála Keszler

172-177
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Observations on onomastic and linguistic dialects

Jenő Kiss

177-180
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"Gugyori" ['a low, earth-covered tavern building'] and "Kutyakaparó" ['dog scrap(er)'] I. (On a type of tavern name in the Great Hungarian Plain)

Tamás Kis

180-185
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Fehérvár ['white castle'], Fehéregyház ['white church'], Fehértemplom ['white church']: an alternative explanation,

László Klima

185-191
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Names of Hungarian codices

Klára Korompay

191-194
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The synesthesia of names

Miklós Kovalovszky

194-197
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The Hungarianisation (or Magyarisation) of family names of people of the Jewish faith in the town of Baja (1895–1945)

Mihály Kőhegyi, Zsuzsa Merk

198-200
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Data and perspectives on the evolution of Hungarian place names at the turn of the 10th–11th centuries

Gyula Kristó

200-205
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Folk etymology and/or the sharp-mindedness of the intellectuals in the creation of nicknames

Nóra Kugler

205-206
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The Falcons soar, or the American-style naming pattern in sports

Krisztina Laczkó

207-212
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Personal names in the proverbs and idioms of the New Hungarian Dialect Dictionary

Erika Lakatos

212-215
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Tacsilló-halom (Slavic točilo,točidlo,toczydło ['whetstone'] + Hungarian halom ['hill'])

Béla Lévai

215-217
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Onomastic lessons from school registers

Gábor Liszka

217-221
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Notes on the hydronyms of the Subcarpathian section of the Tisza River

Péter Lizanec, Katalin Horváth

221-224
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“vraim hatarat, ['my lords' farmlands']” or a few more thoughts on old and modern Hungarian possessive structures

Réka Lőrinczi

224-226
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Was the water of the Zala River salty?

Imre Lehel Markó

226-228
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The position of onomastics within the system of linguistic disciplines

Jakab Máté

228-232
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Settlement names appearing only once in the Middle Ages

András Mező

232-235
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Izaura (Isaura) and Szamanta (Samantha)

Lajos Mizser

235-237
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Notes on the history of some names

Ferenc A. Molnár

237-239
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Notes on the relative prominence in Hungarian personal names

Ildikó Molnár

239-241
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Notes on the morphological structures of the outlying place names in the settlement of Veresegyház (Pest County)

Lajos Cs. Nagy

241-243
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Notes on the issue of the density of geographical names

István Nyirkos

244-246
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Reindeer names used by the Ostyaks living along the Kazim River

Beatrix Oszkó

246-250
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Nicknames in obituaries

Ferenc Ördög

250-253
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Traditional pig husbandry in the village of Szútor (Gömör County)

Attila Kovács-Paládi

253-259
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Special types of changes in personal names in the 16th century

Lajos Papp

259-262
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A linear metre of onomastics

László Péter

263-264
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Is the name Mihály (Michael) fashionable?

Ildikó Posgay

264-266
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Onomatopoeia and sound imitation

Ferenc Pusztai

266-269
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Systemic pressure and logic (Notes on personal pronouns in Uralic languages)

János Pusztay

269-270
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Notes on Russian loanwords in the Zyrian language

Károly Rédei

271-272
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Jews in Hungarian place names

Béla Rónai

273-274
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Paradise and places associated with Paradise

Imre Solymár

275-278
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Family names in a neighbourhood of the town of Orosháza (Békés County) in 1928

Ferenc Szabó

278-281
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Geographical names that carry emotional connotations

Géza Szabó

281-284
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Family names derived from geographical names in the Őrség region (Western Hungary)

László Szabó

284-288
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A historical-etymological examination of some place names in Cluj-Napoca and its surroundings from the Hunyadi Era (1446–1490) until the death of Gábor Bethlen in 1629

Ádám Szabó T.

288-292
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Pál Szabó on names and naming trends

István Szathmári

293-295
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Notes on the non-standard morphophonological behaviour of family names

Tamás Szende

295-297
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Nicknames in the settlement of Szentes (Csongrád County), as recorded in the 1857 census register

Judit Szűcs

297-299
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Guruntyi (< Germ. Grund 'land', 'possession'), Házigrány (< Germ. Hasengrund 'rabbit creek'), Istenlejt (< Germ. *Steinleite 'stone slope'), Nacsagrom (< Germ. Nacsagrund, from the family name Nacsa), and Nacsapéreg (< Germ. Nacsaberg 'Nacsa hill') Unusually sounding medieval place names of German origin in the Börzsöny Mountains (North Hungarian Mountains)

István Torma

300-302
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Names of urbarium conscriptors in Trencsén County (From the time of Maria Theresa's reform of the serfdom system [urbarium])

István Udvari

303-305
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Changes to the (system of) street names in Tolna County

Ferenc Vadas

305-308
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The name element zsidó ['Jew'] in the geographical names of Veszprém County

Mária Varga

308-309
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The Hungarian first name Kincső and the historical Chinese province of Kin-tseu in a novel by Mór Jókai (1925–1904)

Zsuzsa Várnai

309-311
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Literary names in the short stories of Áron Tamási (1936−1957)

György Varsányi

311-315
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Notes on a group of common nouns through the lens of onomastics

Borbála Vitányi

315-317
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Proper names in Hungarian folk tales

Vilmos Voigt

317-320
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Notes on the back-formed t͔, d͔, and l͔ sounds

Imre Wacha

320-325
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Mordvin lexical items

Gábor Zaicz

326-328
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“Deceased—somewhere in Russia” (Some onomastic lessons from a sad list)

Erzsébet Zelliger

328-330
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History of science and the university curriculum

Éva Zsilinszky

331-332
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The names of Transylvanian tent-dwelling tax-paying (fiscal) Gypsies in the 18th century

Zoltán Zsupos

333-336
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