A new issue of ONOMA journal has been released !

The thematic section of Onoma 57 is derived from the papers dealing with onomastics in the West Slavic countries Poland, Czechia and Slovakia, presented at the 27th ICOS Congress in Kraków (guest editors: Urszula Bijak, Kraków; Iveta Valentová, Bratislava; Milan Harvalík, Bratislava). Due to the ongoing war in Ukraine, in acknowledgement of the achievements of Ukrainian onomastics, the guest editors have decided to also include two articles by Ukrainian onomasticians, even though Ukrainian is an East Slavic language. These two papers present the study of Ukrainian settlement names and unofficial personal names among Ukrainian soldiers and commanders during the Russian-Ukrainian war of 2014–2022.

The non-themed articles deal with Mexican first names given by Catholics in 1960, first names in Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia) in comparison with European names in Maghreb and among Maghrebi immigrants in France, and Erei personal names in Nigeria. A fourth article suggests the introduction of two new onomastic terms for concepts for which general terms no not appear in current onomastics, dionym and nominabilia.

The Editorial Board thanks the guest editors, the general editorial team and the anonymous peer reviewers for the production of this volume.

MATS WAHLBERG
Chair, Editorial Board, Onoma