Onomastics

"word meaning" as you declare, but rather "onomastics" is the study of proper names and thus, "anonymous" is not strictly a fit object of onomatology. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Yet onomastics between Etruscan, Latin and Greek prove once again that this assumption is false since Etruscan Χalχas is borrowed from Greek Κάλχας, Paχa is from Greek Βάκχος, leχtumuza is a diminutive based on a loan from Greek λήκυθος nb. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When we clear away the junk linguistics, this alleged Etruscan sound change of f h rests solely on foreign onomastics. ❋ Unknown (2009)

George R. Stewart (1895-1980), midcentury novelist and co-founder of the American Name Society, gave onomastics a good name with his classic "Names on the Land" (1945), a learned and rollicking act of patriotic toponymy. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I think basely solely on my onomastics-are-destiny reaction to the name Leola that she was attracted to this pattern by the green print version. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Why does this onomastics stuff interest me so much? ❋ Bradamant (2005)

Operacion Puerto and its onomastics is not related to heroics, but to bags of frozen blood, and the mystery of their identity and the performances they produced - Names such as Birillo, Amigo de Birillo, USA, Hijo de Rudicio, and Piti, treatments such as Siberia, Vino, ❋ Unknown (2009)

But in the time since Barthes, in a manner the semiotician may not have envisaged, that onomastics has descended from the heights of myth and epic having the status of Greek gods. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The editor introduces this section — "Names in Literature" — by stating the purpose of it, namely, which is "to ask if the study of imaginary personages and places does not properly belong to onomastics." (p. 127.) ❋ Unknown (1998)

Yet these elements seem to be more related to onomastics than those she has described in this paper and therefore make the reader anxious to know more. ❋ Unknown (1998)

It isn't clear to this reviewer just what place the Litt article, "Self-Naming and Self-Defining in Subscriptions to Familiar Letters in the English Renaissance," is supposed to have in onomastics. ❋ Unknown (1998)

There are no departments of toponymy, or even of onomastics that I know of, and no degrees are awarded in these fields. ❋ Unknown (1991)

Although the book is a bit heavy with such items, they are by no means overwhelming, and, even if you are a subscriber to Word Ways, you ought to have a copy of Names and Games if only to have such a wealth of material on onomastics in one place. ❋ Unknown (1986)

As their joint contribution to onomastics, Dunkling and Gosling have focused on first names. ❋ Unknown (1986)

Alfred J. Kolatch has been active in onomastics since at least 1948, when his first book on names appeared. ❋ Unknown (1981)