anthroponymy
Sign in to saveAlso known as anthroponomastics, anthroponimics, anthroponymics, anthroponymastics
Anthroponymy (also anthroponymics or anthroponomastics, from Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος anthrōpos, 'human', and ὄνομα onoma, 'name') is the study of anthroponyms, the proper names of human beings, both individual and collective. Anthroponymy is a branch of onomastics.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- academic discipline
- Subclass of
- onomastics
Show 2 more facts
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Linguistics
- topic's main category
- Category:Anthroponymy
via Wikidata · CC0
~5 min read
Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Anthroponymy of individual and family names
- Anthroponymy of group and population names
- Anthroponymy and culture
- Related terms and processes
- See also
- References
- Sources
Anthroponymy (also anthroponymics or anthroponomastics, from Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος anthrōpos, 'human', and ὄνομα onoma, 'name') is the study of anthroponyms, the proper names of human beings, both individual and collective. Anthroponymy is a branch of onomastics.
Researchers in the field of anthroponymy are called anthroponymists. Since the study of anthroponyms is relevant for several other disciplines within social sciences and humanities, experts from those disciplines engage in anthroponymic studies, including researchers from the fields of anthropology, history, human geography, sociology, prosopography, and genealogy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “anthroponymy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.