A Tihanyi alapítólevél személynevei I. Középkori okleveleink teonimái
Date: 2011
Subject: Tihanyi alapítólevél
személynév
teonima
Isten neve
oklevél
ómagyar kor
magyar
személynév
teonima
Isten neve
oklevél
ómagyar kor
magyar
Abstract:
RUDOLF SZENTGYÖRGYI, Personal names in the Deed of Foundation of Tihany
Abbey I. Theonyms in Hungarian medieval charters
Research into the Deed of Foundation of Tihany Abbey (1055) has definitely been flourishing
these days: several studies and two monographs (Zelliger 2005, 20112, Hoffmann 2010) have
recently been published to commemorate the 950th anniversary of its formulation. Inquiries have
produced significant new results primarily for the history of the Hungarian language and historical
name studies in connection with the toponyms in the Deed; the personal names in this charter have
not, however, provoked much research interest so far. A series of studies introduced by the present
paper is going to be devoted to personal names. – This paper deals with theonyms appearing in
medieval Hungarian charters, including the Deed of Foundation of Tihany Abbey. Not every
aspect of this survey is connected directly to the text of the Deed; still, all are needed to cast light
on the characteristics of the use of other name types in its text. – The main conclusions of the
paper: 1. Theonyms are consistently inserted into the texts of the observed charters in Latin. 2.
Their instances are Latin until they become separated semantically and functionally from their
original denotata. 3. The mere functional separation often leads to translation into Latin in name
use, which, consequently, is “back-translation” with respect to theonyms. 4. These tendencies
become important factors in determining the systematic linguistic relations which, among other
things, strictly link medieval ecclesiastic and official name use together. The paper also discusses
the connection between ecclesiastic liturgy and patrociny naming.