Onomastics

Onomastics or onomatology is the study of the etymology, history, and use of proper names.[1] An orthonym is the proper name of the object in question, the object of onomastic study.

Onomastics can be helpful in data mining, with applications such as named-entity recognition, or recognition of the origin of names.[2][3] It has also been used in historical research to identify ethnic minorities within wider populations.[4][5]

Etymology

Onomastics originates from the Greek onomastikós (ὀνομαστικός, 'of or belonging to naming'),[6][7] itself derived from ónoma (ὄνομα, 'name').[8]

Branches
  • Toponymy (or toponomastics), one of the principal branches of onomastics, is the study of place names.
  • Anthroponomastics is the study of personal names.
  • Literary onomastics is the branch that researches the names in works of literature and other fiction.[9]
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gollark: You still rely on those, instead of directed orbital gamma ray sources?
gollark: You could probably have written coltrans's's's too, you share a keyboard.
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See also
Organizations

References
  1. "onomastics". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
  2. Carsenat, Elian (2013). "Onomastics and Big Data Mining". arXiv:1310.6311 [cs.CY].
  3. Mitzlaff, Folke; Stumme, Gerd (2013). "Onomastics 2.0 - The Power of Social Co-Occurrences". arXiv:1303.0484 [cs.IR].
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. ὀνομαστικός, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus project
  7. "Online Etymology Dictionary". etymonline.com. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  8. ὄνομα, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus project
  9. Alvarez-Altman, Grace; Burelbach, Frederick M. (1987). Names in Literature: Essays from Literary Onomastics Studies.
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