Dear all,

On next Friday (22nd March 2024) there will be an online onomastic event, concerning an online dictionary and the study of family names of the so-called Visegrad countries (CZ, HU, PL, SK).

The Dictionary of Family Names in the Visegrad Countries

Introduction of an international online onomastic dictionary

22 March 2024, 2:00 p.m.

Online: MS Teams
Meeting identifier: 386 770 577 80
Access code: 55GcrZ

14:00–14:10 Opening words (JUDIT BÓNA vice-dean, ELTE, Hungary)

14:10–15:30 Section 1
MARIANN SLÍZ (ELTE, Hungary): The Dictionary of Family Names in the Visegrad Countries: an introduction
JÁNOS N. FODOR – KITTI HAUBER (ELTE, Hungary): Typological comparison of the V4 countries’ surname stocks
PAVEL ŠTĚPÁN (ÚJČ, Czechia): Delimitation of motivation categories of Czech surnames
MAŁGORZATA RUTKIEWICZ-HANCZEWSKA – KAROLINA GALEWSKA (UAM, Poland): Frequency of Polish
surnames in the 200 most popular group in formal, structural and semantic terms

15:30–15:50 Break

15:50–17:00 Section 2
JÁN BAUKO – ORSOLYA HEGEDŰS (UKF, Slovakia): Meaning and linguistic origin of the most common
surnames in Slovakia
TAMÁS FARKAS (ELTE, Hungary): Surnames from ethnonyms: some lessons from the surname stocks 
VERONIKA ŠTĚPÁNOVÁ (ÚJČ, Czechia): Language consulting in the area of surnames: usability of the
Dictionary in comparison with printed dictionaries
ANNAMÁRIA SZABÓ T. (ELTE, Hungary): How to use the Dictionary in education?