✨ #6 of 85 Things About DIAS – Celtica Volume 1
In May 1946 Celtica, the peer-reviewed journal of the DIAS School of Celtic Studies made its first appearance. Covering linguistics, literature, manuscript studies, history, law, dialect studies & onomastics
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In May 1946 Celtica, the peer-reviewed journal of the DIAS School of Celtic Studies made its first appearance. Covering linguistics, literature, manuscript studies, history, law, dialect studies & onomastics
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October 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Onomastics probably isn't a thing, hey Steve Reich.
October 22, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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"look at all these words that don't have equivalent brittonic stems!"
somewhere in the distance, literally every onomastics expert doing actual work instead of being bewitched by his celebrity status: "but they do........."
somewhere in the distance, literally every onomastics expert doing actual work instead of being bewitched by his celebrity status: "but they do........."
October 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Our next name story comes from Glasgow, Scotland, and is written by Dr Alasdair Whyte, Lecturer in Celtic Onomastics at the University of Glasgow.
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Glaschu ~ Glasgow and Gart nan Gad ~ Garngad - SNSBI
This story looks at some Glasgow place-names which tell us about the natural environment through a language which was the mother tongue of the area’s communities for several centuries: Gaelic.
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October 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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October 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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It is beyond my ken to explain why, but the format [number] [noun] just doesn't really happen in Scottish Gaelic onomastics. You have [noun] of [number] [noun], sure, but you would not have a village just named Six Cows in Gaelic. Just doesn't happen.
October 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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«Was steckt eigentlich hinter Ortsnamen?» – Ich war zu Gast beim MEET THE LINGUISTS - Podcast – Gespräch auf Schweizerdeutsch - www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj2X... #linguistik #langsky #schweizerdeutsch #namenkunde #onomastics #sprachgeschichte
«Namen haben eine sehr wichtige Funktion in unserer Gesellschaft» | Luzius Thöny
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October 9, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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I'm in WhatsApp & Facebook groups for Arabian history, Arabian dialects, Arabian languages ...
Is anyone in similar groups for other related research? Hebrew? Arabic? Classics? Bible? Quran? Geography?? Omani hydro-onomastics??? Musandamese architecture?!? Dromedary anatomy!?!
Is anyone in similar groups for other related research? Hebrew? Arabic? Classics? Bible? Quran? Geography?? Omani hydro-onomastics??? Musandamese architecture?!? Dromedary anatomy!?!
October 5, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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From the man who wrote the book* on Scottish onomastics!
*actually several books
*actually several books
The Place-names of Fife, Kinross-shire, Clackmannanshire, and Bute all have sections on Gaelic.
October 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Meaning of #anomastico A mischievous version of "onomastics", that is, the day of the saint or birthday. From the Greek "ónoma" (name)... anomastico
October 1, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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Four years later, I expanded on that blog post in an informal talk on the intersection of philosophy and onomastics, which was mostly bewailing my enduring -- and mostly failing -- attempt to link my two long-standing research strands: dmnes.wordpress.com/2020/05/15/o...
On the Intersection of Onomastics and Philosophy in the Middle Ages (lecture)
Our editor in chief, Dr. Sara L. Uckelman, was recently invited to give an online talk in the Shire of Mynydd Gwyn branch of the Society for Creative Anachronism’s “Tuesday Discourses&#…
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September 26, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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I got into onomastics when I was 10. I discovered in the front matter of my parents' late 1970s World Book Dictionary a list of the top 100 most popular male and female names in the US in the year of publication, and was hooked.
September 26, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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I am fascinated by #diasporas and #onomastics. Here is Edmond Costello, an Irishman living in Palma de Mallorca in the 18th century, signing his name in Latin. No surprise here, but.....
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September 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Von Affolderbach bis Zybulla: 381 neue #Familiennamen-Artikel online im Wörterbuch www.namenforschung.net/dfd/woerterb... #onomastics
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September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Wir heben ab - in einem Namenspecial zu den Familiennamen von Raumfahrtpionier:innen www.namenforschung.net/specials/rau... #onomastics
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September 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Von Afflerbach bis Ziegenmeyer: 325 neue #Familiennamen-Artikel online im Wörterbuch www.namenforschung.net/dfd/woerterb... #onomastics
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September 10, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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There's a branch of linguistics devoted to the study of proper names (onomastics) and within that, a branch devoted to place names (toponomastics)
I wonder what the depth of study is in these fields for Canadian place names.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toponymy
I wonder what the depth of study is in these fields for Canadian place names.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toponymy
September 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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FYI: Onomastics Online: Croatian exonyms: the use, projects, publications - Ivana Crljenko
FYI: Onomastics Online: Croatian exonyms: the use, projects, publications - Ivana Crljenko
It is our pleasure to invite you to the next Onomastics Online lecture (International Council of Onomastic Sciences):
Onomastics Online
9 October 2025
17:00-18:00 (UTC+2)
Microsoft Teams
Speaker: Ivana Crljenko (University of Zadar, Croatia)
Moderator: Peter Jordan (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria / University of the Free State, South Africa)
Topic: Croatian Exonums: The Use, Projects, Publications
Preregistration (free) required: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/3b07
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September 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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creative writers, if you think "john (thing)" is lazy naming, consider history. i’ve learned onomastics. "bonaparte" has been on our noses, literally "good part/side/solution." was there a good part to the emperor "naples"? was france on the good side? was exile the good solution? bah, ridiculous
September 4, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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4th publication of the year:
#Sport #sponsoring in times of ‘polycrisis’. A #discourse #analyzis of three contemporary crises
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#Sport #sponsoring in times of ‘polycrisis’. A #discourse #analyzis of three contemporary crises
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September 1, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Btw, the name of this sort of study is "onomastics."
August 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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My friend saw me reading this ‘history of Roman Scandinavia’ and said that the phrase ‘didn’t make sense’: Skre argues otherwise in his Northern Routes (2025), using onomastics, artefacts, sites (Gudme, Uppåkra, and Sorte Muld), burials, and theoretical frameworks to reveal the first northern realms
August 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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#Onomastics question.
Which gender(s) does the first name "Jules" fit in the US? I (being French) always thought it as a male name only, but I've seen a few (2? 3?) mentions of US people named Jules, and as far as I can tell, they're all girls or women.
Which gender(s) does the first name "Jules" fit in the US? I (being French) always thought it as a male name only, but I've seen a few (2? 3?) mentions of US people named Jules, and as far as I can tell, they're all girls or women.
August 27, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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FIFTY FIFTY -- Athena
How delightful that my Fifty Fifty bias, the Suedo-Taiwanese-Korean Athena, is named after the Olympian goddess to whom I am most devoted!
#kpop #kpoppix #Athena #fiftyfifty #greekmythology #names #onomastics
How delightful that my Fifty Fifty bias, the Suedo-Taiwanese-Korean Athena, is named after the Olympian goddess to whom I am most devoted!
#kpop #kpoppix #Athena #fiftyfifty #greekmythology #names #onomastics
August 24, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Von Augsburg bis Zwirblis: 439 neue #Familiennamen-Artikel online im Wörterbuch www.namenforschung.net/dfd/woerterb... #onomastics
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August 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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