A Study on Native Place Names Recognized as Chinese Character Place Names―Focus on the Village Names in Boeun Area―

In the present report we will focus on the analysis of microtoponyms of Bobrovniki (Babrowniki) village and its surroundings. The village is in Ostrovets (Astravets) district (Republic of Belarus, Grodno (Hrodna) region), north-western part of which borders on the Republic of Lithuania. This area is dominated by flat terrain, which, of course, influenced the system of names of geographical objects.Microtoponyms are divided into 2 groups:1) names of onomastic origin, which amounted to 53 % of the total number of microtoponymic units;2) names of apellative origin, which amounted to 47 % of the total number of microtoponymic units collected by us.In the first group of names we have distinguished the units, formed from the stems of official personal proper names, their spoken varieties and place names. Microtoponyms motivated by personal names are especially well represented.In the second group of names we have found the names, formed from common nouns. The study of the structural organization of the names of small geographical objects of the village Bobrovniki and its environment showed, that names simple in their structure are more common than composite ones.Origin of microtoponyms is characterized by heterogeneity. Of course, most of the names come from the ancestral Belarusian stems and roots – lexemes used in the Belarusian language from the times of Proto-Slavic, East Slavic period, id-est Belarusian own words. But there are detected microtoponymic units, formed by borrowed names as well. Among these microtoponyms the names of the Polish and Lithuanian descent have been recorded.Microtoponymic units in the structure of which the suffixes that are typical of the Lithuanian language have been found:-uny- (-un-), rising to the Lithuanian -ūnai;- ishki- dating back to the Lithuanian -iški, -iškė, -iškis, -iška;-oyti (from Lithuanian -aičiai and -aitis).In the study of this area there were also recorded microtoponymic units in the structure of which an element of Lithuanian stems has been detected.Our material collected 24 % of the total number of names of units, that were formed under the influence of Polish and Lithuanian languages. Thus, it is safe to continue to study MICROTOPONYMY of Ostrovets area, and in particular Bobrovniki village and its surroundings. In this area, common names of small geographical objects that appeared in the Belarusian dialects under the influence of neighbouring languages are wide spread.

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Waman Pandit—Scholar and Marathi Poet (17th century)

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies ◽

10.1017/s0041977x00089230 ◽

1926 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 305-314 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

S. G. Kanhere

Keyword(s):

Seventeenth Century ◽

Research Work ◽

17Th Century ◽

Sacred Place ◽

Native Place ◽

The Village

Wāman Pandit was born in the second half of the seventeenth century (the definite date is not obtainable) at the village of Kumthe in the Satārā, district of the Bombay Presidency. According to the latest research work of the Bharata Itīhāsa Samśodhak Mandali of Poona, Wāman was a native of Bijāpore. In his early days he received some training in Sanskrit from his father, who was the village-astrologer by profession, and who had considerable knowledge of Sanskrit. When about 18 he went to Benāres, the centre of Hindu learning and also the most sacred place of the Hindus. He was accompanied by his wife, an incident which shows that his parents were dead at that time. He applied himself rigorously to the study of Sanskrit for not less than twelve years, and having completed his education, in all departments of knowledge, he returned to his native place.

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Native place names and land occupancy in the northern Mackenzie Valley area

10.4095/298145 ◽

1984 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

W C Wonders

Keyword(s):

Place Names ◽

Native Place ◽

Valley Area

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A kisbábonyi cigányság helynévismerete

Névtani Értesítő ◽

10.29178/nevtert.2018.5 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 40 ◽

Author(s):

Zsuzsa Szilágyi-Varga

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Groups ◽

Cognitive Mapping ◽

Social Groups ◽

Target Group ◽

Place Names ◽

Hungarian Population ◽

The Village

Knowledge of place names in the Roma community of Kisbábony (Băbeşti, Romania) The paper focusing on the field of name sociology can be seen as a continuation of the author’s previous works. The previously published studies deal with the knowledge of place names in the Hungarian population in Kisbábony (Băbeşti, Romania) and the cognitive mapping by the communities living there. The present paper primarily focuses on the knowledge of place name in the Roma community of Kisbábony. The findings rely on interview-based research the author conducted in the village. After characterizing the sociological features of the target group, questions regarding what percentage of the Hungarian toponymicon of the settlement is known in the local native Hungarian-speaking Roma community and on which factors the results depend are answered. The second part of the paper compares the knowledge of place names in the Roma and the Hungarian ethnic groups. In light of the collected and analysed data, it can be concluded that the knowledge of place names in the various social groups which live in the same settlement can be entirely different depending on certain extralinguistic factors.

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A Study on Establishment of Chinese Character Place Names in Seoyugyeonmun -A comparison with Chinese characters pronunciations and syllable structure of Japan and China-

The Japanese Modern Association of Korea ◽

10.16979/jmak..56.201705.7 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol null (56) ◽

pp. 7-22

Author(s):

Seong Hee Park

Keyword(s):

Chinese Character ◽

Syllable Structure ◽

Chinese Characters ◽

Place Names ◽

Japan And China

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APPROACH OF THE CARTOGRAPHICAL METHOD FOR THE RESEARCH OF THE ORIGINS OF PLACE NAMES AND SURNAMES OF SOUTHEASTERN LATGALE

Via Latgalica ◽

10.17770/latg2015.7.1214 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 106

Author(s):

Otīlija Kovaļevska

Keyword(s):

Striking Similarity ◽

Place Names ◽

Historical Sources ◽

Geospatial Information ◽

Personal Names ◽

Family Names ◽

Historical Archives ◽

The Family ◽

The Village ◽

The Relationship

The prevailing majority of contemporary village names of Latgale in historical sources can be traced back to the 18th century at least, whereas surnames, many of which have been preserved up to now, were extensively mentioned already in the 18th century and even in earlier documents. The striking similarity between the village names and surnames evidently points to their relatedness and raises questions about their origin. Despite the large number of these onyms, many village names and surnames are unique, characterizing a certain region, parish, or even village. To some extent, surnames in Latgale are a geographical reality, and as well as place names, they can be investigated by means of the cartographic methods.The aim of the article is to demonstrate the benefits of using maps in research of the origins of the place names and surnames in Latgale. Applying the maps, the attempt has been made to look at the formation of village names throughout the centuries as well as to find out what the relationship between the family names and place names is. For this purpose the oldest available sources of place names and surnames of Latgale were used, trying to project them on modern maps and searching for correlations. For the research southeastern Latgale has been chosen, since a relatively large number of the 16th–18th century documents, containing personal names and place names are available regarding this region. Since the field of the research is very wide and each name has its own individual history, only general correlations and traditions were searched for. Nevertheless, the examples mentioned in the article illustrate the opportunities that the projection of ancient sources on the modern map provides.The main sources used in this research were various documents of revision and inventories from the 16th–18th centuries, partly digitized by the National Historical Archives metrics and materials of revision dated to 1772, as well as some other 16th–18th century documents, containing place names and surnames, as well as maps of various periods. To identificate place names on modern maps the Database of Geographical Names http://vietvardi.lgia.gov.lv/ and Map Browser http://kartes.lgia.gov.lv/karte/ maintained by the Latvian Geospatial Information Agency (LGIA) have been used.

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