Study of proper names
Onomastics (oronomatology in older texts) is the study ofproper names , including theiretymology , history, and use.
Analethonym ('true name') or anorthonym ('real name') is the proper name of the object in question, the object of onomastic study. Scholars studying onomastics are calledonomasticians .
Onomastics has applications indata mining , with applications such asnamed-entity recognition , or recognition of the origin of names.[ 1] [ 2] ethnic minorities within populations[ 3] [ 4] prosopography .
Onomastics originates from theGreek onomastikós ὀνομαστικός ' of or belonging to naming ' ),[ 5] [ 6] ónoma ὄνομα ' name ' ).[ 7]
Toponymy (or more precisely toponomastics), one of the principal branches of onomastics, is the study of place names.[ 8] Anthroponymy is the study of personal names.[ 9] Literary onomastics is the branch that researches the names in works of literature and other fiction.[ 10] Socio-onomastics or re-onomastics is the study of names within a society or culture.[ 11] ^ Carsenat, Elian (2013). "Onomastics and Big Data Mining".arXiv :1310.6311 cs.CY ]. ^ Mitzlaff, Folke; Stumme, Gerd (2013). "Onomastics 2.0 - The Power of Social Co-Occurrences".arXiv :1303.0484 cs.IR ]. ^ Crymble, Adam (2017-02-09)."How Criminal were the Irish? Bias in the Detection of London Currency Crime, 1797-1821" .The London Journal .43 :36– 52.doi :10.1080/03058034.2016.1270876 hdl :2299/19710 ^ Crymble, Adam (2015-07-26)."A Comparative Approach to Identifying the Irish in Long Eighteenth-Century London" (PDF) .Historical Methods .48 (3):141– 152.doi :10.1080/01615440.2015.1007194 .hdl :2299/16184 S2CID 161595975 .Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-03-14. Retrieved2017-08-27 . ^ ὀνομαστικός Archived 2020-08-05 at theWayback Machine , Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott,A Greek-English Lexicon , on Perseus project^ "Online Etymology Dictionary" .etymonline.com .Archived from the original on 27 August 2017. Retrieved26 July 2015 .^ ὄνομα Archived 2021-02-25 at theWayback Machine , Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott,A Greek-English Lexicon , on Perseus project^ Cacciafoco, Francesco Perono; Cavallaro, Francesco (2023).Place Names: Approaches and Perspectives in Toponymy and Toponomastics . ^ Bruck, Gabriele (2009).The Anthropology of Names and Naming . ^ Alvarez-Altman, Grace; Burelbach, Frederick M. (1987).Names in Literature: Essays from Literary Onomastics Studies . ^ Ainiala, Terhi; Östman, Jan-Ola (2017).Socio-onomastics:The pragmatics of names . Look up
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