Hegy- és településnevek a Felső-Tisza-vidéken
Megjelenés dátuma: 2016
Kulcsszó: oronyms
historical Hungary
Hungarian
Ruthernian
Romanian
hegynevek
történeti Magyarország
magyar
rutén
román
historical Hungary
Hungarian
Ruthernian
Romanian
hegynevek
történeti Magyarország
magyar
rutén
román
Abstract:
ZSOLT SEBESTYÉN, Names for mountains and settlements in the Upper Tisza region
Research into the mountain names of historical Hungary has been a neglected area of Hungarian
Onomastics to date. However, mountains as important objects of the natural environment have
significantly influenced the development of both settlement structure and settlement names for
centuries. The results of the author’s research into the names for mountains and those for settlements
in the area of four former, northeast counties (Bereg, Máramaros, Ugocsa and Ung) suggest that
several minor settlements were named by way of borrowing mountain names – especially in
Máramaros County. These peripheral populated places were usually established on mountainsides,
thus easily adopted the names of the mountains themselves. Different types of mountain names
were involved in the process. Most settlement names were formed from mountain names that were
derived from suffixless geographical common nouns through a semantic split. Two-constituent
mountain names, however, rarely served as bases for settlement names. Only few Hungarian
names can be found among the mountain names of the observed region, as in the Middle Ages the
highlands in question were inhabited by Ruthenians and Romanians, while Hungarians mostly settled
flat areas. As a result, settlement names formed from mountain names of Hungarian origin were
also rare in the four counties mentioned above.