Kárpátaljai helységnév-magyarázatok a Volóci járásból
Megjelenés dátuma: 2009
Kulcsszó: helységnév
etimológia
Kárpátalja
Bereg megye
magyar
szláv
ruszin
etimológia
Kárpátalja
Bereg megye
magyar
szláv
ruszin
Abstract:
ZSOLT SEBESTYÉN, Explaining the settlement names of the Sub-Carpathian
Volóc district, Ukraine //
This paper presents etymologies of Sub-Carpathian settlement names. The Volóc district is an
administrative unit formed in the northern part of the former Bereg county, which today comprises 24
settlements. This region had played an important role for centuries in everyday life in historical Hungary because of the trade route and military road that ran through its territory. In spite of this, it was
settled relatively late, in the 16th–17th centuries, because of its geographical conditions. Settlements
were organised by experts called kenézs, who populated the villages with Ruthenian and Romanian
settlers. Most of the settlement names in the region are of Slavic origin, and because of the fact that
villages could only be established in river valleys, many settlements received hydronym-related
names. Significant Hungarian populations could not be observed in the region either in the Middle
Ages or later, so local name-giving practices, apart from some rare exceptions, were not influenced
by the Hungarians.