New Books

2025

Cotticelli-Kurras, Paola (ed.). Names in Times of Crisis. Age of pandemics, energetic deficiency, and war. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag, 2025.

Almásy-Martin, Adrienn – Broux, Yanne (eds.). Greek Personal Names in Egypt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025.

Mkhacani, Thomas Chauke – Munyaradzi, Mawere (eds.). Seeing the World through the Onomastic Lens: Xitsonga Anthroponyms and Toponyms. Bamenda: Langaa RPCIG, 2025.

Raper, Peter. Boesman-invloed op Afrikaanse plekname [Bushman Influence on Afrikaans Place Names]. Johannesburg: UJ Press, 2025.

Chidora, Tanaka – Mamvura, Zvinashe – Mandizvidza, Sheunesu (eds.). Subversion, Resistance and Contestations. Politics of Names and Naming in Zimbabwe. African Social Studies Series, Vol. 50. Berlin: De Gruyter Brill, 2025.

Kimmel, Joseph L. Power in the Name: A Comparative Analysis of Onomastic Invocations. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2025.

MacIlleathain, Ruaraidh – Maclean, Rody. A’ Ghàidhlig air Aghaidh na Tìre – Ainmean-àite ann an Iar-thuath na Gàidhealtachd / Gaelic in the Landscape – Place names in North West Scotland. Battleby: Scottish Natural Heritage, 2025.

Pocklington, Robert. Pautas para el estudio de la toponimia árabe hispánica [Guidelines for the study of Hispanic Arabic toponymy]. Valencia: Tirant Lo Blanch, 2025.

Gendron, Stéphane. Noms de lieux en France. Origine et signification. Arles: Actes sud, 2025.

Lavalade, Yves. Dictionnaire des noms de lieux de la Creuse. Ghent: La Geste, 2025.

Heide, Eldar. Pre-Christian hǫrgr: passages through barriers. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 2025.

2024

Caffarelli, Enzo. L’anima medievale nei nomi contemporanei [The medieval soul in contemporary names]. Biblioteca dell’«Archivum Romanicum». Serie I: Storia, Letteratura, Paleografia. Firenze: Olschki, 2024.

Felecan, Oliviu – Bugheşiu, Alina (Eds.). Name and Naming. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Onomastics “Name and Naming”. (In)correctness in Onomastics. Baia Mare, September 5-7, 2023. Cluj-Napoca: Mega, 2024.

Lavalade, Yves. Noms de famille en Limousin. Ghent: La Geste, 2024.

Peñarroja Torrejón,Leopoldo. Toponimia valenciana (provincia de Castellón): Documentación y estudio crítico-etimológico de mil topónimos, vivos y desaparecidos, de ambas áreas de predominio lingüístico [Valencian toponymy (Castellón province): Documentation and critical-etymological study of a thousand place names, both living and extinct, from both areas of linguistic predominance]. Cordoba: ‎ Almuzara, 2024.

Nick, Iman N. (Ed.). Names, Naming, and the Law. Onomastics, Identity, Power, and Politics. Oxfordshire: Taylor & Francis, 2024.

Barozzi, Alma. What kind of name is that?: Naming Traditions of Asia and Beyond. Lilah Press, 2024.

Valentová, Iveta – Hladký, Juraj – Závodný, Andrej – Bauko, Ján – Králik, Ľubor – Harvalík, Milan – Imrichová, Mária – Bijak, Urszula – Gałkowski, Artur. Slovenská onomastická terminológia [The Slovak onomastic terminology]. Bratislava: Veda, 2024.

Walkowiak, Justyna B. Nazwy ulic Poznania. Tom 1. W stronę teorii onomastykonów [Street names in Poznań. Volume 1. Towards a theory of onomasticons]. Poznań: Wydawnictwo PSP, 2024.

Lech-Kirstein, Danuta – Tabisz, Anna (Eds.). Onomastyka kulturowa [Cultural onomastics]. Opole: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Opolskiego, 2024.

Gibka, Martyna: Literary Onomastics: a Theory. Kindle Edition, 2024.

Majtán, Milan. Štúdie z literárnej onomastiky [Studies in literary onomastics]. Bratislava: Veda, 2024.

Bauko, János. Kétnyelvűség és keresztnévhasználat. Magyar-szlovák
keresztnévkönyv
[Bilingualism and the use of first names. Hungarian-Slovak first names book]. Budapest: Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, 2024.

Hranj, Martina. Varaždinska prezimena : pregled mijena prezimenskoga sustava i onomastička raščlamba – od prve pojave prezimena u Varaždinu do kraja 20. stoljeća [Varaždin surnames: an overview of changes in the surname system and onomastic analysis – from the first appearance of surnames in Varaždin to the end of the 20th century]. Varaždin: Hrvatsko društvo za pripovijedanje ˝Logos˝, 2024.

Otlogetswe, Thapelo – Ramaeba, Goabilwe. A Dictionary of Setswana Personal Names. University of Botswana, 2024.

Gałkowski, Artur. Italianità nella marchionimia polacca. Dall’ispirazione all’onomaturgia [Italianity in Polish commercial names. From inspiration to onomaturgy]. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2024.

Torkar, Silvo. Rokopisna zbirka slovenskih krajevnih imen iz Metelkove zapuščine. Druga knjiga [A manuscript collection of Slovenian place names from Metelko’s legacy. The second book]. Ljubljana: ZRC SAZU, Inštitut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša, 2024.

Kojder, Marcin. Słownik etymologiczno-motywacyjny ukraińskich nazwisk historycznych wschodniej Lubelszczyzny [Etymological and motivational dictionary of Ukrainian historical surnames from the eastern Lublin region]. Lublin: UMCS Wydawnictwo, 2024.

Karpenko, Olena Yu. – Neklesova, Valeriia Yu. A Dictionary of Ukrainian Onomastic Terminology. Sumy: University Book, 2024.

Soledade, Juliana. Os brasileiros e seus nomes: teoria e história da antroponímia no Brasil [Brazilians and their names: theory and history of anthroponymy in Brazil]. Capinas: Pontes Editores, 2024.

Parkin, Harry – Coates, Richard (Eds.). Family Names: Origins, History, Anthropology and Sociology. MDPI Books, 2024.

Autere, Mikko Juhani – Länsisalmi, Riikka Johanna. Nationalismi ja kieli [Nationalism and language]. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society – SKS, 2024.

Bonnet, Carinne (Ed.). The Names of the Gods in Ancient Mediterranean Religions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Boice, Daniel. Naming Arkansas: curious place names from Greasy Corner to Sock City. Mount Pleasant: Arcadia Publishing, 2024.

Malsy, Jean-Claude . L’Oise des noms de lieux, des origines à nos jours III. Paris: Société française Onomastique, 2024.

Escosura Balbás, Cristina – Kurilič, Anamarija – Rallo, Giuseppe Eugenio (Eds.). Name and identity: selected studies on ancient anthroponymy through the Mediterranean. Oxford, UK: BAR Publishing, 2024.

Gensburger, Sarah – Wüstenberg, Jenny (Eds.). De-commemoration: removing statues and renaming places. New York: Berghahn, 2024.

Izquierdo Nieto, Enrique. Prosopographie et onomastique des Épidauriens. (Ve s. av. J.-C. – IVe s. apr. J.-C.). (Hautes Etudes du monde gréco-romain). Genève: Droz, 2024.

Palamidis, Alaya – Bonnet, Corinne (Eds.). What’s in a Divine Name? Religious Systems and Human Agency in the Ancient Mediterranean. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024.

Puhl, Roland W. L. Die Namen der Burgen in Rheinland-Pfalz und im Saarland. Berlin: epubli, 2024.

Szilágyi-Varga, Zsuzsa. Helynév-szociológiai vizsgálatok a Partiumban. [Socio-onomastic investigations in Partium]. Debrecen: Debreceni Egyetemi Kiadó, 2024.

Siegfried-Schupp, Inga. Von Angst und Not bis Zumpernaul: Siedlungsnamen im Kanton Zürich. Zürich: Chronos, 2024.

Stolz, Thomas – Nintemann, Julia. Special onymic grammar in typological perspective: cross-linguistic data, recurrent patterns, functional explanations. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2024.

Waerzeggers, Caroline – Groß, Melanie (Eds.). Personal Names in Cuneiform. Texts from Babylonia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Young, William Charles. The animal names of the Arab ancestors: explaining the non-human names of Arab kinship groups. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2024.

Amaral, Eduardo Tadeu Roque – Seide, Márcia Sipavicius – Rech, Gabriele Cristine (Eds.). Os nomes próprios no Brasil: contribuições do observatório onomástico (O-ONOMA) [Proper names in Brazil: contributions from the onomastic observatory (O-ONOMA)]. Campinas: Pontes Editores, 2024.

Горелова, Ольга. Топонимика Хабаровского края : учебно-методическое пособие [Toponymy of the Khabarovsk region: a textbook]. Хабаровск: Изд-во ТОГУ, 2024.

Prats, Carles: La toponímia oficial no normativa al Principat de Catalunya [The official toponymy in the regulations of the Principat de Catalunya]. ‎ Independently published, 2024.

Тарасов, Олег. Нанайская топонимика: культурологический и исторический анализ [Nanai toponymy: cultural and historical analysis]. Хабаровск: СНО “CyberNet” ХИИК, 2024.

Bergmann, Rolf. Namen. Heidelberg: Universitätsverglag WINTER, 2024.

Федотова, Татьяна. Функционирование имени собственного: современные тенденции и принципы формирования (региональный аспект): монография [Proper Name in Function: modern tendencies and building principles (a regional aspect): monography]. Краснодар: КубГАУ, 2024.

Carter, Paul. Naming No Man’s Land. Postcolonial Toponymies. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

Седакова, И.А. – Завьялова, М.В. ( ред.). Ономастика sub specie cемиотики [Onomastics sub specie semiotics]. Москва: Институт славяноведения РАН, 2024.

Morărașu, Nadia-Nicoleta – Popescu, Floriana. An English-Romanian explanatory dictionary of onomastic phrasemes. Bucharest: Pro Universitaria, 2024.

Durmishi, Izmit. Socioonomastika e Pollogut të Epërm [Socioonomastics of Upper Polog]. Gostivar, 2024.

Strobl, Claus. Von A – Z: Die Straßennamen in Utting a. A. Herkunft – Bedeutung – Geschichten. Ammersee: Kulturlandschaft Ammersee-Lech, 2024.

Erhard, Konrad. Die Flurnamen in der Gemarkung Rott im Landkreis Landsberg. Ammersee: Kulturlandschaft Ammersee-Lech, 2024.

Bily, Inge. Wörterbuch der slawischen Appellativa in Ortsnamen zwischen Saale und Bober/Queis. Wien: Praesens Verlag, 2024.

Saborit, Josep – Casanova, Emili. L’empremta occitana en la història dels valencians a través dels cognoms [The Occitan imprint in the history of the Valencians through surnames]. Paiporta: ‎Denes Editorial, 2024.

Tort, Joan – Rabella, Joan Anton (Eds.). Aportacions a l’onomàstica de la Conca de Tremp i la Terreta i altres estudis [Contributions to the onomastics of the Tremp Basin and the Terreta and other studies]. L’Estralla, 14. Barcelona: Societat d’Onomàstica, 2024.

Batlle, Mar – Ribes i Marí, Enric (Eds.). Toponímia d’Eivissa i de Formentera i altres estudis d’onomàstica [Toponymy of Ibiza and Formentera and other studies of onomastics]. L’Estralla, 15. Barcelona: Societat d’Onomàstica, 2024.

Cruz Saralegui, Juan – Ruiz de Loizaga, Saturnino. Pueblos y lugares del occidente de Álava. Toponimia mayor y menor (siglos ix-xiii) [Towns and places in western Álava. Place names and minor place names (9th-13th centuries)]. Burgos: Imprenta Rico Adrados, 2024.

Fossat, Gilles. Les activités humaines dans la toponymie vauclusienne. París: Les Éditions l’Harmattan, 2024.

Turbić-Hadžagić, Amira – Haverić, Đenita. Bosanskohercegovačka prezimena III – Prezimena od titula i počasnih naslova [Bosnian and Herzegovinian surnames III – Surnames from titles and honorary titles]. Zagreb: BNZ, 2024.