A történeti személynévföldrajz mint a nyelvföldrajz egyik kutatási területe I.*
Date: 2014
Subject: családnév
névföldrajz
keresztnév
etnikai rekonstrukció
18. sz.
magyar
névföldrajz
keresztnév
etnikai rekonstrukció
18. sz.
magyar
Abstract:
JÁNOS N. FODOR, The geography of historical personal names as a research area of
Geolinguistics I. Name geographic methods in name studies
Spatial distribution of proper names – similarly to that of common nouns – is a natural
consequence of language change; as a result, the geography of personal (especially family) names
has recently become an important field of study in international and Hungarian Onomastics. The
paper first outlines the history of previous Hungarian name geographical research, focusing on
terminological questions. The author then discusses the relationship between Geolinguistics and
name geographical research, using examples from ‘Történeti magyar családnévatlasz’ (Atlas of
Hungarian Historical Family Names). Relations between the frequency of Christian names and that
of family names are illustrated in the paper by the 15th–18th-century geography of the family name
Benkő: the outstanding historical or contemporary frequency of family names derived from the
same Christian name in an area is determined by the previous frequency of the base Christian
name in the territory. Christian names can also be used to demonstrate the ethnic composition of
the Carpathian Basin: the 18th-century expansion of the southern Slavic and German ethnic groups is
illustrated by the appearance of the names Jován and Fridericus (and their variants), respectively.