Noms 25 (2026): A Catalan Onomastic Window onto Toponymy, Anthroponymy, Literature, and Fieldwork

 The new issue of Noms: Revista de la Societat d’Onomàstica, no. 25 / 2026, offers a rich panorama of current Catalan and wider Romance onomastic activity. The journal presents itself as a dissemination magazine of the Societat d’Onomàstica, open to contributions on theory, methodology, fieldwork, reviews, bibliographical news, archival materials, and images of onomastic value. The issue is edited by Rosa Maria Anglès, Andreu Beltran, Jesús Bernat, Assumpció Rehues, and Sílvia Veà, with Jesús Bernat and Assumpció Rehues as coordinators. Its cover photograph, by Jesús Bernat, shows the Pic dels Llacs from the Coll de la Botella in Andorra, already signalling one of the issue’s central motifs: mountain toponymy.

The opening “Presentació” [“Presentation”], by Jesús Bernat and Assumpció Rehues, situates the issue in the context of the 51st Colloquium of the Societat d’Onomàstica, held in Encamp, Andorra, from 8 to 10 May 2026. The colloquium’s initial theme was “Toponímia i antroponímia pirinenca, relleu positiu i hidronímia” [“Pyrenean Toponymy and Anthroponymy, Positive Relief and Hydronymy”]. The editors emphasize not only the thematic diversity of the meeting, but also its dialectal and geographical breadth, ranging across the Catalan-speaking lands.

The issue includes a long “Notícies” [“News”] section that functions almost as an onomastic chronicle of the first half of 2026. It gathers press items and announcements on street naming, official toponymy, Catalan Sign Language toponymy, surname history, meteorological naming, contested place-name forms, and the politics of public names in Catalonia, Valencia, the Balearic Islands, Andorra, Galicia, the Basque Country, Asturias, Aragon, and beyond. This makes the issue especially useful not only as a scholarly resource but also as a record of living public debates around names.

The bibliographical section, “Novetats bibliogràfiques” [“Bibliographical News”], is particularly valuable. It lists recent books, articles, journals, and maps relevant to onomastics, ranging from Catalan and Occitan toponymy to Galician, Basque, Arabic, literary, genealogical, and international naming studies. Among the books highlighted are works on Toponímia i antroponímia en terres de cruïlla [“Toponymy and Anthroponymy in Crossroads Lands”], Estudis de toponímia catalana i occitana [“Studies in Catalan and Occitan Toponymy”], La memòria d’un paisatge: la toponímia de Fageca [“The Memory of a Landscape: The Toponymy of Fageca”], and numerous other regional and comparative contributions.

The review section contains four main reviews. Ferran Guardiola Noguera reviews the edited volume by Albert Aragonès Salvat, Carles M. Castellà Espuny, and Andreu Subirats Aleixandri, Toponímia i antroponímia en terres de cruïlla. Qüestions d’onomàstica en el subdialecte tortosí [“Toponymy and Anthroponymy in Crossroads Lands: Questions of Onomastics in the Tortosí Subdialect”]. The review presents the volume as the outcome of the Tortosa onomastic meetings and highlights its work on river culture, the Ebro Delta, augmentative suffixes in toponymy, local street-name practices, and historical place-name material.

Eugeni Perea Simón reviews Jordi Manent i Tomàs, Els noms populars dels nivolats, boires i vents de Menorca [“The Popular Names of Cloud Formations, Fogs and Winds of Menorca”]. This review is one of the most evocative pieces in the issue. It presents Manent’s work as a major contribution to popular meteorological onomastics, noting its 261 entries for clouds and fogs and 56 for winds, many of them absent from the DCVB. The review frames this lexical material as fragile intangible heritage, where local names preserve environmental knowledge, agriculture, fishing culture, religion, and popular imagination.

Joan Bell-lloc reviews Robert Pocklington’s edited volume Pautas para el estudio de la toponimia árabe hispánica [“Guidelines for the Study of Hispanic Arabic Toponymy”]. The review emphasizes the methodological importance of the book: Pocklington builds a large corpus of Latin and Arabic etyma and proposes both “positive” and “inverse” paths for reconstructing the evolution of Hispano-Arabic and Romance place names. This is presented as a major tool for researchers dealing with the often difficult phonetic and graphic transmission of Arabic and Arabized Hispanic toponyms.

Rosa M. Anglès reviews a set of works by Jaume Ventura Nualart, including Noms de les cases del nostre poble [“Names of the Houses of Our Village”] and the multi-volume photographic series Temps era temps [“Once Upon a Time”], devoted to Palau-solità i Plegamans. The review stresses the onomastic value of photographic and local-history collections: even when they are not conceived as strict onomastic monographs, they preserve house names, surnames, nicknames, local place names, and the social memory of a municipality transformed by demographic and urban change.

The literary section, “Onomàstica i literatura” [“Onomastics and Literature”], offers a passage from Carmelina Sánchez-Cutillas, Matèria de Bretanya [“Matter of Brittany”]. The excerpt is a beautiful example of literary toponymy: la Punta de l’Albir, el Morro de Toix, l’Olla, la Illeta, l’Illot, l’Aitana, el Puigcampana, Bèrnia, el Coll del Mascarat, and la Vall de Tàrbena become part of a poetic geography where names structure landscape, memory, and affect.

The issue’s research articles are varied but strongly connected by historical-toponymic method. Cosme Aguiló, in “Rectificacions sobre un topònim tunisenc de la cartografia antiga” [“Corrections concerning a Tunisian Toponym in Ancient Cartography”], revisits an earlier interpretation from his own work on Bartomeu Olives’ atlas. By comparing medieval nautical charts, he corrects the reading and interpretation of a Tunisian maritime toponym, arguing that forms such as due seror / doe soror / doe solor point to “two sisters,” later obscured and replaced or paralleled by masculine forms such as frares.

Ventura Castellvell, in “Puigtinyós (Alt Camp) i Puègtinhós (Aude)” [“Puigtinyós (Alt Camp) and Puègtinhós (Aude)”], compares a Catalan and an Occitan toponym formed with puig / puèg plus an adjective related to tinyós / tinhós. The article explains the 1917 replacement of the village name Puigtinyós by Montferri, motivated by the negative social associations of tinyós, while also showing that the adjective could originally have had an orographic or descriptive meaning connected with rocky, reddish, or vegetation-marked terrain.

Jordi Mir contributes “Pau Vila, un estel en el record” [“Pau Vila, a Star in Memory”], a memorial essay rather than a conventional research article. It recalls the geographer Pau Vila through the author’s personal memory of excursionist culture, the continuity of Catalan geography, and a remarkable 1976 outing to the Montseny. Its onomastic value lies in the way personal memory, landscape names, mountain culture, and national geography are interwoven.

Finally, Plàcid Pérez Pastor and Jaume Deyà Miró publish “Toponímia de la Serra de Tramuntana de Mallorca: del districte andalusí d’al-Yībal al terme de les Muntanyes (1)” [“Toponymy of the Serra de Tramuntana of Mallorca: from the Andalusi District of al-Yībal to the District of the Mountains (1)”]. This substantial article combines historical documentation, Arabic and Romance toponymy, archaeology, and territorial reconstruction. It examines names such as Turixant, Almallutx, Cúber, Bini, Lofra, and others, showing how the Islamic and feudal layers of Mallorca’s mountain landscape can be reconstructed through toponymy.

A final visual section presents the 51st Colloquium of the Societat d’Onomàstica in Encamp through photographs by Jesús Bernat Agut and Llorenç Roviras Sampere. The map and photo report list nineteen communications, including work by Xavier Planas, Albert Pujal, Joan Peytaví, Carlos Ángel Rizos, Josep Maria Vigo, Victor Sabaté, Josep Canals, Jesús Burgueño, Ferran Lozano, Agustí López, Carles Gascón, Joan Tort, Quim Valera, Carlos Fernández, Enric Ribes, Joan Camps, Josep M. Bertran, Martí Huguet, Rosa M. Anglès, Ernestina Vallverdú, Josep Quer, Jesús Bernat, Ferran Guardiola, Victor Agulló, Dayana Arteta, Ricard Sentandreu, Fèlix Bruguera, Albert Turull, and Emili Casanova.

Academically, Noms 25 is not a narrowly specialized journal issue in the conventional research-article sense. It is closer to a living bulletin of onomastic culture: news, bibliography, reviews, literary illustration, research notes, local history, and colloquium documentation coexist. This mixed format is also its strength. It shows onomastics not as an isolated academic discipline, but as a field connecting archives, oral tradition, maps, meteorology, mountain knowledge, local politics, literature, and memory. One small point of caution is that some sections are necessarily heterogeneous: bibliographical lists, reviews, and research articles are not separated by the same degree of scholarly apparatus. But for a society magazine devoted to dissemination, this is not a weakness; it is part of the genre. The issue’s deeper unity lies in its persistent concern with names as cultural evidence.

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Noms 25 (2026): una finestra onomàstica sobre la toponímia, l’antroponímia, la literatura i el treball de camp

El número 25 / 2026 de Noms: Revista de la Societat d’Onomàstica ofereix una panoràmica molt rica de l’activitat onomàstica actual, sobretot en l’àmbit català i romànic. La revista es presenta com una publicació de divulgació de la Societat d’Onomàstica, oberta a aportacions sobre teoria, metodologia, treball de camp, ressenyes, novetats bibliogràfiques, documents d’arxiu i imatges amb valor onomàstic. L’equip de redacció és format per Rosa Maria Anglès, Andreu Beltran, Jesús Bernat, Assumpció Rehues i Sílvia Veà, amb Jesús Bernat i Assumpció Rehues com a coordinadors. La fotografia de portada, obra de Jesús Bernat, mostra el pic dels Llacs des del coll de la Botella, a Andorra, i anticipa un dels grans eixos del número: la toponímia de muntanya.

La “Presentació” [“Presentation”], signada per Jesús Bernat i Assumpció Rehues, situa el número en el marc del 51è Col·loqui de la Societat d’Onomàstica, celebrat a Encamp, Andorra, els dies 8, 9 i 10 de maig de 2026. L’eix inicial del col·loqui fou “Toponímia i antroponímia pirinenca, relleu positiu i hidronímia” [“Pyrenean Toponymy and Anthroponymy, Positive Relief and Hydronymy”]. Els coordinadors remarquen tant la diversitat temàtica com la diversitat dialectal i geogràfica de les intervencions.

La secció “Notícies” [“News”] és gairebé una crònica onomàstica del primer semestre de 2026. Hi trobem notícies sobre nomenclàtors urbans, toponímia oficial, toponímia en llengua de signes catalana, història dels cognoms, noms de borrasques, polèmiques sobre la castellanització de topònims, canvis de noms de carrers i debats públics sobre la memòria inscrita en l’espai. La revista mostra així que l’onomàstica no és només una disciplina erudita, sinó també un camp viu de política lingüística, patrimoni i vida quotidiana.

La secció “Novetats bibliogràfiques” [“Bibliographical News”] és una eina de gran utilitat per als investigadors. Recull llibres, articles, revistes i mapes relacionats amb l’onomàstica catalana, occitana, gallega, basca, àrab, literària, genealògica i internacional. Entre les obres destacades hi ha Toponímia i antroponímia en terres de cruïlla [“Toponymy and Anthroponymy in Crossroads Lands”], Estudis de toponímia catalana i occitana [“Studies in Catalan and Occitan Toponymy”], La memòria d’un paisatge: la toponímia de Fageca [“The Memory of a Landscape: The Toponymy of Fageca”], i moltes altres aportacions territorials i comparatives.

La secció de “Ressenyes” [“Reviews”] inclou quatre ressenyes principals. Ferran Guardiola Noguera ressenya el volum editat per Albert Aragonès Salvat, Carles M. Castellà Espuny i Andreu Subirats Aleixandri, Toponímia i antroponímia en terres de cruïlla. Qüestions d’onomàstica en el subdialecte tortosí [“Toponymy and Anthroponymy in Crossroads Lands: Questions of Onomastics in the Tortosí Subdialect”]. La ressenya presenta el volum com a resultat de les Jornades d’Onomàstica de Tortosa i en destaca l’interès per la cultura fluvial, el delta de l’Ebre, els augmentatius toponímics, la retolació urbana i la documentació històrica.

Eugeni Perea Simón ressenya l’obra de Jordi Manent i Tomàs, Els noms populars dels nivolats, boires i vents de Menorca [“The Popular Names of Cloud Formations, Fogs and Winds of Menorca”]. La ressenya subratlla el valor d’aquest recull de nefonímia i meteorologia popular, amb 261 entrades de noms de núvols i boires i 56 de vents, moltes de les quals no apareixen al DCVB. L’obra és presentada com una aportació a la preservació d’un patrimoni immaterial especialment fràgil: els noms amb què pagesos, pescadors i habitants de Menorca han llegit el cel i el temps.

Joan Bell-lloc ressenya el volum editat per Robert Pocklington, Pautas para el estudio de la toponimia árabe hispánica [“Guidelines for the Study of Hispanic Arabic Toponymy”]. La ressenya posa l’accent en la dimensió metodològica de l’obra: Pocklington parteix d’un corpus ampli d’ètims llatins i àrabs i proposa una doble via d’anàlisi, l’evolució positiva i l’evolució inversa, per estudiar la transformació dels topònims àrabs, arabitzats i romànics de la península Ibèrica.

Rosa M. Anglès ressenya diverses obres de Jaume Ventura Nualart, entre les quals Noms de les cases del nostre poble [“Names of the Houses of Our Village”] i la sèrie fotogràfica Temps era temps [“Once Upon a Time”], centrades en Palau-solità i Plegamans. La ressenya mostra com aquests llibres, tot i no ser monografies onomàstiques estrictes, conserven una gran quantitat de noms de casa, cognoms, renoms, topònims locals i memòria social d’un municipi transformat pel creixement demogràfic i urbanístic.

La secció “Onomàstica i literatura” [“Onomastics and Literature”] recull un fragment de Carmelina Sánchez-Cutillas, Matèria de Bretanya [“Matter of Brittany”]. El text és un exemple magnífic de toponímia literària: la Punta de l’Albir, el Morro de Toix, l’Olla, la Illeta, l’Illot, l’Aitana, el Puigcampana, Bèrnia, el Coll del Mascarat i la Vall de Tàrbena no són simples referències geogràfiques, sinó una manera de construir memòria, paisatge i identitat.

Els articles del número ofereixen una mostra variada de metodologia toponímica. Cosme Aguiló, a “Rectificacions sobre un topònim tunisenc de la cartografia antiga” [“Corrections concerning a Tunisian Toponym in Ancient Cartography”], revisa una interpretació anterior pròpia a partir de cartes nàutiques medievals. L’autor mostra com les formes due seror / doe soror / doe solor apunten probablement a la idea de “dues germanes”, després opacitzada i transformada en formes masculines com frares.

Ventura Castellvell, a “Puigtinyós (Alt Camp) i Puègtinhós (Aude)” [“Puigtinyós (Alt Camp) and Puègtinhós (Aude)”], compara un topònim català i un d’occità formats amb puig / puèg i un adjectiu relacionat amb tinyós / tinhós. L’article explica el canvi oficial de Puigtinyós a Montferri l’any 1917, provocat per les connotacions negatives de tinyós, però també mostra que l’adjectiu podia tenir un valor descriptiu orogràfic, relacionat amb clapes rocoses, colors ferruginosos o vegetació rogenca.

Jordi Mir, a “Pau Vila, un estel en el record” [“Pau Vila, a Star in Memory”], ofereix un text memorialístic dedicat al geògraf Pau Vila. L’article combina memòria personal, excursionisme, geografia catalana i noms de lloc, especialment a partir d’una excursió al Montseny l’any 1976. És una peça menys analítica en sentit estricte, però molt significativa per entendre com el coneixement del territori es transmet també a través de la conversa, l’excursió i la memòria dels mestres.

Finalment, Plàcid Pérez Pastor i Jaume Deyà Miró publiquen “Toponímia de la Serra de Tramuntana de Mallorca: del districte andalusí d’al-Yībal al terme de les Muntanyes (1)” [“Toponymy of the Serra de Tramuntana of Mallorca: from the Andalusi District of al-Yībal to the District of the Mountains (1)”]. L’article combina documentació medieval, toponímia àrab i romànica, arqueologia i reconstrucció territorial. Noms com Turixant, Almallutx, Cúber, Bini o Lofra permeten llegir les capes andalusines i feudals del paisatge de la muntanya mallorquina.

El número es clou amb una mostra gràfica del 51è Col·loqui de la Societat d’Onomàstica a Encamp, amb fotografies de Jesús Bernat Agut i Llorenç Roviras Sampere. El reportatge enumera dinou comunicacions, amb aportacions de Xavier Planas, Albert Pujal, Joan Peytaví, Carlos Ángel Rizos, Josep Maria Vigo, Victor Sabaté, Josep Canals, Jesús Burgueño, Ferran Lozano, Agustí López, Carles Gascón, Joan Tort, Quim Valera, Carlos Fernández, Enric Ribes, Joan Camps, Josep M. Bertran, Martí Huguet, Rosa M. Anglès, Ernestina Vallverdú, Josep Quer, Jesús Bernat, Ferran Guardiola, Victor Agulló, Dayana Arteta, Ricard Sentandreu, Fèlix Bruguera, Albert Turull i Emili Casanova.

Des d’un punt de vista acadèmic, Noms 25 no és un número monogràfic en el sentit estricte, ni tampoc una revista formada exclusivament per articles de recerca. És més aviat un espai viu de cultura onomàstica: notícies, bibliografia, ressenyes, literatura, articles, memòria local i crònica de col·loqui hi conviuen. Aquesta heterogeneïtat pot semblar desigual si s’hi busca una estructura estrictament acadèmica, però és precisament el que dona valor al número com a publicació de societat científica. La seva unitat profunda no és formal, sinó temàtica: tots els materials mostren que els noms són documents culturals, rastres històrics, eines de memòria i instruments de lectura del territori.

Nomina Vol. 41 (2022-25)

Celebrating the arrival of Nomina volume 41 (2022-25), which is out now!

Browse a selection of articles by John Baker, Richard Coates, Peter McClure, Paul Tempan, Jeremy Harte, Alaric Hall, James Butler, Christopher Donaldson, Fiona Edmunds and Ian Gregory.

Contents cover selected place-names, personal names and more, together with a bibliography (2018-22).

Names, Places, Laws, and Literature: Acta Onomastica, Vol. 67/1 (2026)

 The new issue of Acta Onomastica - Vol. 67, No. 1 (2026) - arrives with thirteen peer-reviewed articles spanning urbanonymy, historical toponymy, anthroponymy, literary onomastics, etymology, and socio-onomastics across a remarkably broad geographic and linguistic canvas, from Ukraine and Romania to Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Bohemia, and the Carpathian Basin.

The issue opens with a theoretical contribution by Ján Bauko on toponomastics and translatology, examining the translation of urbanonyms in bilingual environments - a question of growing relevance wherever minority languages and official nomenclature compete for the same street signs. Andrea Bölcskei and Gábor Mikesy then turn to Hungarian place names as evidence of historical relations between Moravians, Czechs, and Hungarians - a reminder that toponyms are political archives as much as linguistic ones.

Jaroslav David offers what may be the issue's most theoretically ambitious contribution: a new perspective on the honorific motive in place naming, revisiting a concept central to modern urbanonymy with fresh analytical tools. David appears again near the end of the issue, co-authoring with Anna Laura Kolláth a study of how street name changes in Miskolc, Hungary between 1989 and 1993 were reflected in the regional newspaper Észak-Magyarország - a case study in how the press mediates the politics of renaming after regime change. David also contributes a review of Slovenská onomastická terminológia by Iveta Valentová and colleagues, a major terminological reference for Slovak onomastics.

Jana Davidová Glogarová and Tereza Klemensová explore the proprial landscape of postmodernism through the prose of Czech writers Michal Ajvaz and Miloš Urban - a literary onomastics study that asks what proper names do in fiction when reality itself becomes unstable. Žaneta Dvořáková and Andrea Bartíková take a legal-historical angle, tracing the history of regulations and laws governing surnames in the Czech lands and examining expert surname assessments and court disputes - a study that bridges onomastics and legal history in ways rarely attempted.

Oliviu Felecan contributes a socio-onomastic study of Czechs and Slovaks in Romania, exploring how naming practices reflect identity, minority status, and cultural memory in a diaspora context. Ilona Janyšková and Helena Karlíková tackle the methodological challenges of etymologising proper names in etymological dictionaries - a metatheoretical reflection on how onomastics and historical linguistics interface at the lexicographic level.

From Ukraine, Olga Klimkina examines the names given to new residential developments in Kyiv through the lens of speech influence theory, and Tetyana Kosmeda, Oksana Kovtun, and Vitaliya Papish analyse verbal innovations derived from anthroponyms - the productive, often subversive process by which proper names become verbs in Ukrainian. Judit Kozma, Zsófia Ludányi, and Dorottya Jakab present a corpus-based study of morphological variation in Hungarian proper names, drawing on inquiries received by the Hungarian Language Consulting Service — the most-viewed article in this issue, reflecting the practical demand for normative guidance on name inflection.

Two contributions round out the toponymic section: František Kožíšek investigates the origin of the Czech toponym Hladové vody (Hungry Waters), and Martina Zirhutová maps the distribution of the appellative borovice (Scots pine) and its dialectal variants in minor place names across Bohemia.

The issue closes with a tribute by Soňa Wojnarová to the life anniversary of Miloslava Knappová - one of the most important Czech onomasticians of the twentieth century - a review by Martina Ptáčníková of Justyna B. Walkowiak's two-volume Nazwy ulic Poznania, onomastic news compiled by the editorial team, and Žaneta Dvořáková's overview of 25 years of advisory activity by the Department of Onomastics of the Czech Language Institute (2000–2025).

The full issue is freely available at asjournals.lib.cas.cz/actaonomastica.

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Jména, místa, zákony a literatura: Acta Onomastica, ročník 67/1 (2026)

Nové číslo časopisu Acta Onomastica - ročník 67, číslo 1 (2026) - přináší třináct recenzovaných studií, které pokrývají urbanonymii, historickou toponymii, antroponymii, literární onomastiku, etymologii i socioonomastiku na pozoruhodně širokém geografickém a jazykovém záběru: od Ukrajiny a Rumunska přes Maďarsko, Slovensko a česky mluvené Čechy až po karpatský prostor.

Číslo otevírá teoretický příspěvek Jána Bauka věnovaný toponomastice a translatologii - konkrétně překladu urbanoným v bilingválním prostředí, otázce stále naléhavější všude tam, kde si menšinové jazyky a oficiální nomenklatura konkurují na stejných uličních tabulích. Andrea Bölcskei a Gábor Mikesy pak využívají maďarská místní jména jako pramen poznání historických vztahů mezi Moravany, Čechy a Maďary - doklad toho, že toponyma jsou politickými archivy stejně tak jako jazykovými.

Teoreticky nejambicióznější příspěvek čísla přináší pravděpodobně Jaroslav David: nabízí novou perspektivu honorifikačního motivu v pojmenování míst a přistupuje k tomuto ústřednímu pojmu moderní urbanonymie s novými analytickými nástroji. David se v čísle objevuje i jako spoluautor: společně s Annou Laurou Kolláth zkoumá, jak byl v regionálním deníku Észak-Magyarország reflektován přejmenovávání ulic v Miskolci v letech 1989–1993 - případová studie o tom, jak tisk zprostředkovává politiku přejmenování po změně režimu. David rovněž přispívá recenzí terminologické příručky Slovenská onomastická terminológia Ivety Valentové a kolektivu.

Jana Davidová Glogarová a Tereza Klemensová se věnují propriální krajině postmodernismu v prózách Michala Ajvaze a Miloše Urbana - literárněonomastická studie, která klade otázku, co vlastní jména dělají v beletrii, když se samotná realita stává nestabilní. Žaneta Dvořáková a Andrea Bartíková přistupují k tématu z právněhistorické perspektivy: sledují vývoj předpisů a zákonů o příjmeních a analyzují znalecká posuzování příjmení i soudní spory - studie, která propojuje onomastiku a právní dějiny způsobem, k němuž se badatelé příliš často neuchylují.

Oliviu Felecan přispívá socioonomastickou studií o Češích a Slovácích v Rumunsku, v níž pojmenovávací praktiky zrcadlí otázky identity, menšinového postavení a kulturní paměti v diaspoře. Ilona Janyšková a Helena Karlíková se zamýšlejí nad metodologickými úskalími etymologizování vlastních jmen v etymologických slovnících - metateoretická reflexe styčné plochy onomastiky a historické lingvistiky na úrovni lexikografie.

Z Ukrajiny přichází příspěvek Olgy Klimkinové o názvech nových zástaveb v Kyjevě nahlížených prismatem teorie řečového vlivu, a studie Tetyany Kosmedy, Oksany Kovtun a Vitaliji Papish analyzuje verbální inovace odvozené od antroponym — produktivní, často subverzivní proces, jímž se vlastní jména stávají slovesy. Judit Kozma, Zsófia Ludányi a Dorottya Jakab předkládají korpusovou studii morfologické variace maďarských vlastních jmen na základě dotazů zaslaných Jazykové poradně - nejčtenější příspěvek tohoto čísla, dokládající praktickou poptávku po normativních doporučeních ohledně skloňování jmen.

Toponymickou část doplňují dva příspěvky: František Kožíšek pátrá po původu jména Hladové vody a Martina Zirhutová mapuje rozšíření apelativa borovice a jeho nářečních variant v pomístních jménech v Čechách.

Číslo uzavírá příspěvek Soňi Wojnarové k životnímu jubileu Miloslavy Knappové - jedné z nejvýznamnějších českých onomastiček dvacátého století — recenze dvousvazkové práce Justyny B. Walkowiak Nazwy ulic Poznania od Martiny Ptáčníkové, onomastické zprávy a poznámky redakčního týmu a přehled Žanety Dvořákové o poradenské činnosti oddělení onomastiky ÚJČ AV ČR za posledních pětadvacet let (2000–2025).

Celé číslo je volně dostupné na asjournals.lib.cas.cz/actaonomastica.

Names Without Borders: Onomástica desde América Latina, Vol. 7 No. 1 (2026)

 Open the new issue of Onomástica desde América Latina and you will travel - without leaving your chair - from the classrooms of Algeria to the streets of Buenos Aires, from the Amazonian rainforest to the marathon finish line in Valencia, from Vietnamese birth registers to Yoruba names on Facebook.

Volume 7, No. 1 (2026) is one of the most geographically and thematically expansive issues the journal has published. It opens with two studies rooted in Algeria: Widad Souali examines proper names in Spanish-language teaching manuals (Los nombres propios en la enseñanza-aprendizaje del español como lengua extranjera en Argelia), while Imene Maghraoui asks whether French children's readers like "Taoki et compagnie" open windows onto the world or impose cultural hegemony (Le poids des noms propres dans « Taoki et compagnie » en contexte algérien). Lamia Adrar rounds out the Algerian trio with a study of pharmaceutical brand names and their semantic motivations (Noms de Médicaments Algériens).

The issue then crosses continents with ease. Thi Minh Thao Le and Pham Thi Ngoc offer a sweeping sociolinguistic study of gender and culture in Vietnamese naming practices (Modern naming trends in Vietnam). Oluwatosin Mercy Ajayi, Esther Avosuahi Onmoke, and Idowu Odebode trace how Yoruba anthroponyms are anglicised on Facebook (Os processos morfológicos de anglicização de antropônimos iorubás). Chenglin Zhu and Gabriel Antunes de Araujo analyse phonetic adaptations in the translation of onomastic vocabulary in the works of Ruggieri (Adaptações fonéticas na tradução do léxico onomástico nas obras de Ruggieri).

Closer to home - or rather, closer to Latin America - Adianys Collazo Allen maps the propial expressions embedded in Cuban road names (Las vías de comunicación en Cuba: oraciones propiales), and the team of Gilberto Maximiano Ceballos Esqueda, Gloria Ignacia Vergara Mendoza, Lucila Gutiérrez Santana, and José Manuel González Freire proposes a methodological framework for classifying nicknames in Cuauhtémoc, Colima (Propuesta metodológica para la clasificación de los apodos). Yolanda Guillermina López Franco brings a lexicological and socio-anthroponymic lens to the most common given names in Mexico in 2021 (Une approche lexicologique et socioanthroponymique aux prénoms les plus attribués au Mexique en 2021), a study also published in Spanish translation in the same issue.

Across the Atlantic, Alexandre Melo de Sousa, Isabel Correia, Bruno Gonçalves Carneiro, and Amílcar Morais compare toponymic sign formation in Portugal and Brazil (Toponímia entre mares), while Robson Santos Silva traces the intellectual journey from traditional to critical toponymy (Da toponímia tradicional à toponímia crítica). Marcos Jaime Araújo explores Língua Geral toponymy and Amazonian identity in the Bragantina region of Pará (Toponímia em Língua Geral e identidade na Amazônia bragantina paraense), and the team of Romilia de Sá Feitosa, Maria Célia Dias de Castro, and Maria da Guia Taveiro Silva offers a socio-onomastic study of commercial establishment names in Imperatriz, Maranhão (Estudo sócio-onomástico de nomes de estabelecimentos comerciais localizados em Imperatriz/MA).

A highlight is the special dossier on onomastics and linguistic landscape, coordinated by María Carmen Fernández Juncal, who opens it with a panoramic overview of achievements and challenges (Onomástica y paisaje lingüístico: logros y retos). The dossier includes Elisa Suárez Caramés on the social stratification of chrematonyms in Galician urban space, Lucía Morán Gaitero on proper names in the rural linguistic landscape of León, María Victoria Galloso Camacho and Águeda Vázquez Hidalgo on odonymy and linguistic landscape, Mercedes De La Torre García on the naming of public libraries in Seville, Montserrat Rangel Vicente on institutional topo-ergonyms in Salamanca, Ricard Morant on names on marathon race bibs in Valencia, and Vinícius Pereira de Souza Cruz on football onomastics in the linguistic landscape of Buenos Aires.

Finally, a Mini contribution by Anna Choleva-Dimitrova, Nadezhda Dancheva, Maya Vlahova-Angelova, and Gergana Petkova surveys the Bulgarian personal name system in the early 21st century - a reminder that this journal's reach extends well beyond its Latin American home.

The full issue is freely available at e-revista.unioeste.br.

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Nomes sem fronteiras: Onomástica desde América Latina, v. 7, n. 1 (2026)

Abra o novo número de Onomástica desde América Latina e viaje - sem sair do lugar - das salas de aula da Argélia às ruas de Buenos Aires, da floresta amazônica à linha de chegada da Maratona de Valência, dos registros civis vietnamitas aos antropônimos iorubás no Facebook.

O volume 7, número 1 (2026) é um dos mais ricos e geograficamente abrangentes já publicados pela revista. Três estudos abrem o número com foco na Argélia: Widad Souali investiga os nomes próprios no ensino de espanhol como língua estrangeira (Los nombres propios en la enseñanza-aprendizaje del español como lengua extranjera en Argelia), Imene Maghraoui questiona se cartilhas francesas como "Taoki et compagnie" abrem janelas para o mundo ou impõem hegemonia cultural (Le poids des noms propres dans « Taoki et compagnie » en contexte algérien), e Lamia Adrar analisa os processos semânticos de formação dos nomes de medicamentos argelinos (Noms de Médicaments Algériens).

Da Ásia, Thi Minh Thao Le e Pham Thi Ngoc oferecem um estudo sociolinguístico abrangente sobre gênero e cultura nas práticas de nomeação no Vietnã (Modern naming trends in Vietnam). Da África, Oluwatosin Mercy Ajayi, Esther Avosuahi Onmoke e Idowu Odebode investigam como antropônimos iorubás são anglicizados no Facebook (Os processos morfológicos de anglicização de antropônimos iorubás). Chenglin Zhu e Gabriel Antunes de Araujo analisam as adaptações fonéticas na tradução do léxico onomástico nas obras de Ruggieri (Adaptações fonéticas na tradução do léxico onomástico nas obras de Ruggieri).

Na América Latina, Adianys Collazo Allen mapeia as expressões propiais presentes nos nomes de vias cubanas (Las vías de comunicación en Cuba), e a equipe formada por Gilberto Maximiano Ceballos Esqueda, Gloria Ignacia Vergara Mendoza, Lucila Gutiérrez Santana e José Manuel González Freire propõe uma metodologia para classificar apelidos em Cuauhtémoc, Colima (Propuesta metodológica para la clasificación de los apodos). Yolanda Guillermina López Franco aplica uma abordagem lexicológica e socioantroponímica aos prenomes mais atribuídos no México em 2021. Na interface entre Portugal e Brasil, Alexandre Melo de Sousa, Isabel Correia, Bruno Gonçalves Carneiro e Amílcar Morais comparam a formação de signos toponímicos nos dois países (Toponímia entre mares), enquanto Robson Santos Silva traça o percurso da toponímia tradicional à crítica (Da toponímia tradicional à toponímia crítica).

O dossiê temático sobre onomástica e paisagem linguística, coordenado por María Carmen Fernández Juncal, reúne sete estudos que vão da estratificação social dos crematônimos na Galícia (Elisa Suárez Caramés) ao nome nos dorsais da Maratona de Valência (Ricard Morant), passando pela onomástica futebolística no paisagismo linguístico de Buenos Aires (Vinícius Pereira de Souza Cruz).

O número completo está disponível gratuitamente em e-revista.unioeste.br.

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Nombres sin fronteras: Onomástica desde América Latina, v. 7, n. 1 (2026)

Abra el nuevo número de Onomástica desde América Latina y viaje — sin moverse de su silla — desde las aulas de Argelia hasta las calles de Buenos Aires, desde la Amazonia hasta la meta del Maratón Valencia, desde los registros civiles vietnamitas hasta los antropónimos yorubas en Facebook.

El volumen 7, número 1 (2026) es uno de los más ricos y geográficamente ambiciosos que ha publicado la revista. Tres estudios con foco en Argelia inauguran el número: Widad Souali examina los nombres propios en la enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera (Los nombres propios en la enseñanza-aprendizaje del español como lengua extranjera en Argelia), Imene Maghraoui pregunta si cartillas francesas como "Taoki et compagnie" abren ventanas al mundo o imponen hegemonía cultural (Le poids des noms propres dans « Taoki et compagnie » en contexte algérien), y Lamia Adrar analiza los procedimientos semánticos en los nombres de medicamentos argelinos (Noms de Médicaments Algériens).

Desde Asia, Thi Minh Thao Le y Pham Thi Ngoc presentan un estudio sociolingüístico sobre género y cultura en las prácticas de nominación en Vietnam (Modern naming trends in Vietnam). Desde África, Oluwatosin Mercy Ajayi, Esther Avosuahi Onmoke e Idowu Odebode estudian la anglicización de antropónimos yorubas en Facebook. Chenglin Zhu y Gabriel Antunes de Araujo analizan las adaptaciones fonéticas en la traducción del léxico onomástico en las obras de Ruggieri.

En América Latina, Adianys Collazo Allen cartografía las expresiones propiales en los nombres de las vías cubanas, y el equipo formado por Gilberto Maximiano Ceballos Esqueda, Gloria Ignacia Vergara Mendoza, Lucila Gutiérrez Santana y José Manuel González Freire propone una metodología para clasificar los apodos de Cuauhtémoc, Colima. Yolanda Guillermina López Franco aplica una perspectiva lexicológica y socioantroponímica a los nombres más atribuidos en México en 2021 - estudio que aparece también en traducción al español en este mismo número. Alexandre Melo de Sousa, Isabel Correia, Bruno Gonçalves Carneiro y Amílcar Morais comparan la formación de signos toponímicos entre Portugal y Brasil (Toponímia entre mares), y Robson Santos Silva traza el recorrido intelectual de la toponimia tradicional a la crítica.

El número incluye además un dossiê temático sobre onomástica y paisaje lingüístico, coordinado por María Carmen Fernández Juncal, con siete contribuciones: desde la estratificación social de los crematónimos en el espacio urbano gallego (Elisa Suárez Caramés) hasta los nombres en los dorsales del Maratón Valencia (Ricard Morant), pasando por la función del nombre propio en el paisaje rural de León (Lucía Morán Gaitero), la odónima y el paisaje lingüístico (María Victoria Galloso Camacho y Águeda Vázquez Hidalgo), las denominaciones de bibliotecas públicas en Sevilla (Mercedes De La Torre García), los topo-ergónimos institucionales en Salamanca (Montserrat Rangel Vicente) y la onomástica futbolera en el paisaje lingüístico de Buenos Aires (Vinícius Pereira de Souza Cruz).

El número completo está disponible de forma gratuita en e-revista.unioeste.br.

Onomástica desde América Latina – Volume 7, No. 1 (2026)

 The 2026 first issue of Onomástica desde América Latina (v. 7, n. 1) has just been published, bringing together a rich collection of studies on toponymy, anthroponymy, naming practices, language contact, and sociocultural identity across different regions of the world. The contributions span Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, highlighting how names function as historical records, social markers, and dynamic linguistic forms.

This issue opens with Robson Santos Silva’s historical examination of the shift from traditional to critical toponymy, tracing how approaches to place-naming have evolved alongside social and political thought. Yolanda Guillermina López Franco offers a lexicological and socio-anthroponymic analysis of the most common first names in Mexico in 2021, shedding light on cultural preference patterns and demographic trends.

A team study by Gilberto Maximiano Ceballos Esqueda, Gloria Ignacia Vergara Mendoza, Lucila Gutiérrez Santana, and José Manuel González Freire proposes a methodological framework for classifying nicknames in Cuauhtémoc, Colima, showing how informal naming practices shape community identity. From Cuba, Adianys Collazo Allen explores the proprial phrases found in the naming of communication routes, revealing how infrastructure and spatial narratives intertwine.

Expanding the geographic lens, Thi Minh Thao Le and Pham Thi Ngoc present a sociolinguistic investigation of modern naming trends in Vietnam, focusing on intersections of gender, culture, and contemporary identity. Meanwhile, Oluwatosin Mercy Ajayi, Esther Avosuahi Onmoke, and Idowu Odebode analyze the morphological processes behind the anglicization of Yoruba personal names on Facebook, illustrating how digital environments influence name adaptation and self-presentation.

In another contribution, Chenglin Zhu and Gabriel Antunes de Araujo examine phonetic adaptations in the translation of onomastic lexicon in the works of Ruggieri, offering insights into literary translation and cross-linguistic mediation. The Mini section features Anna Choleva-Dimitrova, Nadezhda Dancheva, Maya Vlahova-Angelova, and Gergana Petkova with a concise contemporary overview of the Bulgarian personal name system in the early 21st century.

Together, these articles demonstrate the vitality and diversity of current onomastic research - from local naming customs to global naming dynamics.

Explore the full issue here: https://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/onomastica/issue/view/1629

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Onomástica desde América Latina – Volume 7, n. 1 (2026) - Nova edição publicada

A nova edição de Onomástica desde América Latina (v. 7, n. 1, 2026) já está disponível, reunindo estudos que abordam toponímia, antropônimos, práticas de nomeação, contato linguístico e identidade sociocultural em diferentes contextos regionais. Os artigos percorrem espaços da América Latina, Europa, África e Ásia, mostrando como os nomes funcionam como registros históricos e marcas sociais em constante transformação.

O número se inicia com o trabalho de Robson Santos Silva, que apresenta um percurso histórico do movimento da toponímia tradicional para a toponímia crítica. Yolanda Guillermina López Franco analisa, sob uma perspectiva lexicológica e socioantropônimica, os prenomes mais atribuídos no México em 2021.

Em seguida, Gilberto Maximiano Ceballos Esqueda, Gloria Ignacia Vergara Mendoza, Lucila Gutiérrez Santana e José Manuel González Freire propõem uma metodologia para a classificação de apelidos em Cuauhtémoc, Colima, evidenciando práticas identitárias locais. De Cuba, Adianys Collazo Allen investiga as expressões propriais associadas às vias de comunicação.

No campo internacional, Thi Minh Thao Le e Pham Thi Ngoc apresentam um estudo sociolinguístico sobre as tendências modernas de nomeação no Vietnã, com foco em gênero e cultura. Oluwatosin Mercy Ajayi, Esther Avosuahi Onmoke e Idowu Odebode examinam os processos morfológicos de anglicização de antropônimos iorubás no Facebook.

Chenglin Zhu e Gabriel Antunes de Araujo analisam adaptações fonéticas na tradução do léxico onomástico nas obras de Ruggieri. Na seção Mini, Anna Choleva-Dimitrova, Nadezhda Dancheva, Maya Vlahova-Angelova e Gergana Petkova apresentam uma perspectiva contemporânea do sistema de nomes pessoais na Bulgária atual.

A edição reafirma a força e a pluralidade da pesquisa onomástica contemporânea.

Leia a edição completa: https://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/onomastica/issue/view/1629

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Onomástica desde América Latina – Volumen 7, n.º 1 (2026) - Nueva edición disponible

Ya está publicada la nueva edición de Onomástica desde América Latina (v. 7, n.º 1, 2026), que reúne una serie de trabajos dedicados a la toponimia, la antroponimia, las prácticas de nombramiento, el contacto lingüístico y las dimensiones socioculturales del nombre en diversas regiones del mundo.

El número abre con el artículo de Robson Santos Silva, que recorre la transición histórica de la toponimia tradicional a la toponimia crítica. Yolanda Guillermina López Franco ofrece un enfoque lexicológico y socioantroponímico sobre los nombres propios más atribuidos en México en 2021.

El equipo formado por Gilberto Maximiano Ceballos Esqueda, Gloria Ignacia Vergara Mendoza, Lucila Gutiérrez Santana y José Manuel González Freire propone una metodología para clasificar los apodos de Cuauhtémoc, Colima, mostrando su papel en la construcción identitaria local. Desde Cuba, Adianys Collazo Allen estudia las oraciones propriales vinculadas a las vías de comunicación.

A escala internacional, Thi Minh Thao Le y Pham Thi Ngoc analizan las tendencias modernas de nombramiento en Vietnam desde una perspectiva sociolingüística centrada en género y cultura. Oluwatosin Mercy Ajayi, Esther Avosuahi Onmoke e Idowu Odebode examinan los procesos morfológicos de anglicización de nombres yorubas en Facebook.

Por su parte, Chenglin Zhu y Gabriel Antunes de Araujo investigan las adaptaciones fonéticas en la traducción del léxico onomástico en las obras de Ruggieri. En la sección Mini, Anna Choleva-Dimitrova, Nadezhda Dancheva, Maya Vlahova-Angelova y Gergana Petkova presentan una visión contemporánea del sistema de nombres personales en Bulgaria.

El volumen pone de relieve la diversidad temática y metodológica de la onomástica actual.

Consultar el número completo: https://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/onomastica/issue/view/1629

New Issue: Noms 24

We are pleased to announce the publication of Noms 24 | 2025, the latest issue of the journal of the Societat d'Onomàstica (Onomastics Society), dedicated to the study of place names and personal names in Catalan-speaking territories and beyond.

A Milestone Edition

This 24th issue marks a special moment, as it represents two dozen editions of tireless work in documenting and preserving onomastic heritage. The editorial team pays tribute to Santi Arbós, who has dedicated himself to compiling onomastic events from around the world for all 24 issues of the journal.

Featured Articles

Maritime Toponymy of Northern Valencia

Andreu Beltran i Pau Fuster present "L'orientació en el mar dels antics pescadors de Castelló" (Orientation at Sea by the Old Fishermen of Castelló), an impressive study of the toponymy and thalassonymy (sea names) of the coast and sea of the northern Valencian towns. This research, supported by the Dávalos-Fletcher Foundation, documents the traditional navigation methods used by fishermen before electronic devices, based on visual alignments (enfilacions) between coastal landmarks and mountains. The project has inventoried 485 land toponyms and 235 sea names, including the unique toponymy of the Columbretes Islands, preserving invaluable intangible cultural heritage recognized by UNESCO.

2025: Ramon Amigó i Anglès Year

Jordi Càceres-Silva commemorates the centenary of the birth of Ramon Amigó i Anglès (1925-2011), writer, professor, and onomasiologist who became a full member of the Philological Section of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans in 1994. The article documents the tribute events organized throughout 2025, including an academic conference at the Centre de Lectura in Reus, an onomastic excursion to Siurana, and a literary route through La Mussara. Amigó's legacy includes ten onomastic collections and numerous monographs, establishing a methodological school for onomastic studies in the Camp de Tarragona region.

Medieval Mystery in the Garrotxa

Manuel Coll i Taberner investigates "La Caixa del Matarranya," exploring the toponymic history of a mesa surrounded by cliffs in Vall-de-roures. The study traces connections to medieval Catalan participation in the conquest of Lower Aragon and examines the possible origins of the place name linked to the knight Asnar Laganya (or Llaganya), whose name may derive from the 10th-century Longania mountain range in the old county of Besalú.

A Case of Toponymic Substitution

Ramon Prior i Tió presents a fascinating study: "Quan un papagai es va convertir en cucut" (When a Parrot Became a Cuckoo), analyzing a medieval toponymic substitution in the Garrotxa. Based on a 1044 document from the Monastery of Sant Joan de les Abadesses, Prior traces how the place name Papaches (possibly derived from the Arabic babbāgā, "parrot," introduced by hispani refugees) was replaced by serra del Cucut (Cuckoo Mountain) following Frankish repopulation. Both names refer to the same spring flower, Primula veris, known as both "papagai de primavera" and "cucut" in Catalan, illustrating profound cultural and linguistic changes in medieval Catalonia.

Book Reviews

The issue includes five substantial book reviews covering recent onomastic publications:

• A terra domestica ad verba inlustranda: Tribute to Professor Javier Terrado Pablo (reviewed by Santi Arbós)
• Toponímia de Ribagorça. Municipi de Castigaleu by Jordi Moners i Sinyol, edited by Carlos Ángel Rizos Jiménez (reviewed by Santi Arbós)
• Trucafort. El gran bandoler oblidat de Catalunya by Carles Raurell Vidal (reviewed by Rosa Maria Anglès)
• Onomàstica del Bruc by Assumpció Rehues Estivill (reviewed by Sílvia Veà)
• Col·lecció diplomàtica de la baronia d'Entença (1174-1411) edited by Manuel Romero Tallafigo and Maria Teresa Palet Plaja (reviewed by Ventura Castellvell)

Extensive News Section

The journal provides comprehensive coverage of onomastic activity across Catalan-speaking territories and the Iberian Peninsula, including:

• Street name changes and toponymic controversies in Valencia, Catalonia, and the Balearic Islands
• Academic conferences and workshops on toponymy
• New doctoral theses and research projects
• International developments in onomastics from Mexico to Wales

Literary Corner

The issue features Jesús Bernat's prize-winning microrelat "Toponímia efímera" (Ephemeral Toponymy), winner of the 2024 Lloret de Mar Literary Prize, offering a poetic reflection on the transient names we give to cloud formations seen from an airplane.

Bibliographic Updates

An extensive section documents new books and articles on onomastics published in 2024-2025, covering toponymy, anthroponymy, and related fields across the Catalan linguistic area and beyond.

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Noms 24 | 2025 represents the ongoing commitment of the Societat d'Onomàstica to preserve, study, and disseminate knowledge about place names and personal names as fundamental elements of cultural heritage. The journal is available at www.onomastica.cat.

ISSN: 2938-284X (print) | 2385-5177 (online)

Nou número: Noms 24 | 2025 - Revista de la Societat d'Onomàstica

Ens complau anunciar la publicació de Noms 24 | 2025, el darrer número de la revista de la Societat d'Onomàstica, dedicada a l'estudi dels noms de lloc i de persona en els territoris de llengua catalana i més enllà.

Una edició especial

Aquest vintiquatrè número marca un moment especial, ja que representa dues dotzenes d'edicions de treball constant en la documentació i preservació del patrimoni onomàstic. L'equip editorial ret homenatge a Santi Arbós, que s'ha dedicat a compilar esdeveniments onomàstics d'arreu del món durant els 24 números de la revista.

Articles destacats

Toponímia marítima del nord del País Valencià

Andreu Beltran i Pau Fuster presenten "L'orientació en el mar dels antics pescadors de Castelló", un estudi impressionant de la toponímia i talassonímia de la costa i la mar dels pobles valencians septentrionals. Aquesta investigació, amb el suport de la Fundació Dávalos-Fletcher, documenta els mètodes tradicionals de navegació utilitzats pels pescadors abans dels dispositius electrònics, basats en enfilacions visuals entre punts de la costa i muntanyes. El projecte ha inventariat 485 topònims de terra i 235 talassònims, incloent-hi la toponímia única de les illes Columbretes, preservant un patrimoni cultural immaterial inestimable reconegut per la UNESCO.

2025: Any Ramon Amigó i Anglès

Jordi Càceres-Silva commemora el centenari del naixement de Ramon Amigó i Anglès (1925-2011), escriptor, professor i onomasiòleg que va esdevenir membre numerari de la Secció Filològica de l'Institut d'Estudis Catalans el 1994. L'article documenta els actes d'homenatge organitzats durant el 2025, incloent-hi una jornada d'estudi al Centre de Lectura de Reus, una sortida onomàstica a Siurana i una ruta literària per la Mussara. El llegat d'Amigó inclou deu reculls onomàstics i nombroses monografies, establint una escola metodològica per als estudis onomàstics al Camp de Tarragona.

Misteri medieval a la Garrotxa

Manuel Coll i Taberner investiga "La Caixa del Matarranya", explorant la història toponímica d'una mola voltada de cingles a Vall-de-roures. L'estudi traça connexions amb la participació catalana medieval en la conquesta del Baix Aragó i examina els possibles orígens del topònim vinculat al cavaller Asnar Laganya (o Llaganya), el nom del qual podria derivar de la serra de Longania del segle x a l'antic comtat de Besalú.

Un cas de substitució toponímica

Ramon Prior i Tió presenta un estudi fascinant: "Quan un papagai es va convertir en cucut", analitzant una substitució toponímica medieval a la Garrotxa. Basant-se en un document de 1044 del Monestir de Sant Joan de les Abadesses, Prior traça com el topònim Papaches (possiblement derivat de l'àrab babbāgā, "papagai", introduït pels refugiats hispani) va ser substituït per serra del Cucut després de la repoblació franca. Tots dos noms fan referència a la mateixa flor primaveral, Primula veris, coneguda tant com "papagai de primavera" com "cucut" en català, il·lustrant canvis culturals i lingüístics profunds a la Catalunya medieval.

Ressenyes

El número inclou cinc ressenyes substancials de publicacions onomàstiques recents:

• A terra domestica ad verba inlustranda: Homenatge al professor Javier Terrado Pablo (ressenyat per Santi Arbós)
• Toponímia de Ribagorça. Municipi de Castigaleu de Jordi Moners i Sinyol, editat per Carlos Ángel Rizos Jiménez (ressenyat per Santi Arbós)
• Trucafort. El gran bandoler oblidat de Catalunya de Carles Raurell Vidal (ressenyat per Rosa Maria Anglès)
• Onomàstica del Bruc d'Assumpció Rehues Estivill (ressenyat per Sílvia Veà)
• Col·lecció diplomàtica de la baronia d'Entença (1174-1411) editat per Manuel Romero Tallafigo i Maria Teresa Palet Plaja (ressenyat per Ventura Castellvell)

Secció extensa de notícies

La revista proporciona una cobertura exhaustiva de l'activitat onomàstica als territoris de llengua catalana i la península Ibèrica, incloent-hi:

• Canvis de noms de carrers i controvèrsies toponímiques a València, Catalunya i les Illes Balears
• Congressos i tallers acadèmics sobre toponímia
• Noves tesis doctorals i projectes d'investigació
• Desenvolupaments internacionals en onomàstica de Mèxic a Gal·les

Racó literari

El número inclou el microrelat premiat de Jesús Bernat "Toponímia efímera", guanyador del Premi Literari de Lloret de Mar 2024, que ofereix una reflexió poètica sobre els noms efímers que donem a les formacions de núvols vistes des d'un avió.

Actualitzacions bibliogràfiques

Una secció extensa documenta nous llibres i articles sobre onomàstica publicats el 2024-2025, cobrint toponímia, antroponímia i camps relacionats a l'àrea lingüística catalana i més enllà.

Declaració de suport a l'AVL

La revista també inclou una declaració de la Societat d'Onomàstica expressant el seu suport a l'Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua (AVL) davant les dràstiques retallades pressupostàries que amenacen la seva capacitat per dur a terme les competències legals en onomàstica valenciana.

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Noms 24 | 2025 representa el compromís continuat de la Societat d'Onomàstica de preservar, estudiar i difondre el coneixement sobre els noms de lloc i de persona com a elements fonamentals del patrimoni cultural. La revista està disponible a www.onomastica.cat.

ISSN: 2938-284X (impresa) | 2385-5177 (en línia)

The Politics of Toponymy in Europe: Onoma Volume 60 (2025) Now Available

 The official journal of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS)

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We are pleased to announce the publication of Onoma Volume 60 (2025), featuring a powerful thematic section on "The Politics of Toponymy in Europe" alongside diverse non-themed articles, eight book reviews, two obituaries, and a note on current naming developments. This substantial volume documents how place names function as political instruments, identity markers, and contested sites of memory across European contexts and beyond.

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THEMATIC SECTION: The Politics of Toponymy in Europe

Edited by Přemysl Mácha and Žaneta Dvořáková, this section demonstrates that European toponymy is never politically neutral - it reflects, constructs, and contests power, identity, and historical memory.

Introduction

Přemysl Mácha and Žaneta Dvořáková

The editors frame the thematic section, outlining how toponymic politics manifests across post-communist, post-imperial, and multicultural European contexts.

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Marit Alas, Tiina Laansalu, and Peeter Päll: "Estonian Street Names in the Ideological Turbulence Through the Centuries"

This collaborative article traces Estonian street naming through successive waves of political control -Swedish, Russian Imperial, Soviet, and post-1991 independence. The authors document how each regime inscribed its ideology into urban toponymy, and how contemporary Estonia navigates this layered heritage. Essential reading for understanding Baltic onomastic politics and the long-term consequences of colonial naming regimes.

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Andrea Bölcskei and Gábor Mikesy: "An Overview of the History of Ideologically Motivated Place-Name Changes in Hungary"

Bölcskei and Mikesy provide a comprehensive historical survey of Hungarian toponymic politics from the 19th century to the present, examining how place names responded to nationalism, communism, and post-communist memory politics. This article offers crucial comparative perspective for scholars studying Central European naming regimes and the relationship between state ideology and geographical nomenclature.

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Daniela Butnaru: "Current Trends of Official Hodonymy in Northeastern Romania"

Butnaru analyzes contemporary street-naming practices (hodonymy) in northeastern Romania, revealing how local authorities navigate post-communist commemoration, European integration pressures, and regional identity assertion. This empirical study demonstrates that toponymic politics operates not just at national but at regional and municipal levels, where local actors make consequential naming decisions within broader political frameworks.

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Žaneta Dvořáková: "Koněvova Street: A Case Study on the Decommunisation and Derussification of Czech Urbanonymy"

Through intensive case-study methodology, Dvořáková examines the controversy surrounding Koněvova Street in Prague - named after Soviet Marshal Ivan Konev, whose statue's removal sparked international debate. This article demonstrates how a single street name becomes a flashpoint for competing historical narratives, Czech-Russian diplomatic tensions, and domestic memory politics. A model study of toponymic contestation in post-communist Europe.

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Peter Jordan: "Multicultural Identity Building Supported by Place Names. The Example of the Val Canale in the Northeast of Italy"

Jordan, a leading figure in critical toponymy, examines the multilingual Val Canale region where Italian, Slovene, and German naming traditions coexist. Rather than viewing toponymic multiplicity as conflict, Jordan argues that multilingual place names can support inclusive regional identity. This article offers a rare positive case study amid the volume's predominant focus on naming conflicts, demonstrating that toponymic politics can facilitate rather than obstruct multicultural coexistence.

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Michal Místecký and Jaroslav David: "Locatives Lost: Case Distributions of Toponyms in Anti-Establishment Media"

In a methodologically innovative contribution, Místecký and David analyze how Czech anti-establishment media employ unusual grammatical case forms for place names - a subtle linguistic strategy signaling ideological distance from mainstream discourse. This corpus-linguistic study reveals that even morphological choices (which grammatical case to use) can carry political meanings, expanding our understanding of how toponymic politics operates not just through name changes but through linguistic manipulation of existing names.

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Eleni Papadopoulou and Maria Vrachionidou: "Linguistic and Political Strategies of Renaming Toponyms in Greece from the 19th to the 21st Century"

Papadopoulou and Vrachionidou provide a longue durée perspective on Greek toponymic politics, tracing renaming waves from Ottoman-to-Greek transitions (19th century), through Balkan Wars and population exchanges (early 20th century), to contemporary debates over minority toponymy. This article demonstrates that Greek place-name politics involves systematic hellenization strategies -linguistic, orthographic, and symbolic - that continue shaping the geographical nomenclature today.

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Halyna Zymovets: "Creating a New Ukrainian Identity: Renaming Campaign in the Capital City of Kyiv During the Ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War"

Zymovets documents the accelerated decommunization and derussification of Kyiv's street names during the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war (post-2022 invasion). This urgent, real-time study shows how wartime accelerates toponymic politics: streets named after Russian cultural figures, Soviet heroes, and imperial administrators are rapidly replaced with Ukrainian national figures, resistance symbols, and war heroes. Essential reading for understanding how armed conflict intensifies naming politics and how toponymy functions as symbolic resistance.

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NON-THEMED ARTICLES: Global Onomastic Diversity

Beyond the European thematic focus, Volume 60 includes seven diverse contributions spanning urban toponymy, plant names, ethnic naming practices, historical linguistics, anthroponymy, chrematonymy, and onomastic historiography.

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Terhi Ainiala and Pia Olsson: "Urban Toponymic Detachment. Place Names as Symbols of Urban Change"

Finnish toponymists Ainiala and Olsson introduce the concept of "toponymic detachment" - when rapid urban transformation severs the semantic connection between place names and their original referents (e.g., "Mill Street" where no mill exists). This theoretical contribution advances critical toponymy by examining how urbanization produces onomastic alienation, complicating place-name interpretation and urban historical memory.

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Abdulai Akuamah and Osei Yaw Akoto: "On Ghanaian Phytonymy: A Socio-Onomastic Typology of Plant Names Among the Asantes in Ghana"

Akuamah and Akoto provide the first systematic typology of Asante plant names (phytonyms), documenting how botanical nomenclature reflects ecological knowledge, medicinal use, cultural values, and social organization. This contribution to African onomastics demonstrates that plant naming is not merely utilitarian but encodes complex ethnobotanical and cosmological systems. Essential for scholars of ethnobiology and non-European naming systems.

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Maria Khosa, Jong Hui Ying, Hasmidar Binti Hassan, and Durdana Khosa: "Baloch Naming Practices in the Wake of Ethnic Conflict: A Socio-Onomastic Study of Balochi Names in Pakistan"

This collaborative team examines how Baloch communities in Pakistan use personal names to assert ethnic identity amid ongoing conflict with the Pakistani state. The authors document naming patterns that resist assimilation, commemorate martyrs, and preserve Baloch cultural heritage under political pressure. A powerful demonstration of anthroponymy as ethnic survival strategy and identity politics.

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Adelina Emilia Mihali: "Slavic Toponymic Connections in the Romanian Carpathian Mountains"

Mihali, a specialist in Romanian toponymy, traces Slavic substratum place names in the Carpathians - linguistic evidence of medieval Slavic settlement layers beneath Romance-speaking populations. This historical-linguistic study reconstructs settlement history through toponymic archaeology, revealing how place names preserve memory of vanished or assimilated populations. Important for Balkan and Carpathian linguistic historiography.

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Ephraim Nissan: "Personal Names Motivated by 'Wolf'"

In his characteristically erudite style, Nissan surveys wolf-motivated anthroponyms across languages, cultures, and historical periods - from Germanic Wolfgang and Turkic Börte to Hebrew Ze'ev and Slavic Vuk. This comparative onomastic study demonstrates the cross-cultural symbolic potency of the wolf as a naming motif, connecting personal nomenclature to mythology, folklore, and warrior cultures. A tour de force of comparative anthroponymy.

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Anthony R. Rowley: "Names of British Railway Companies"

Rowley analyzes British railway company names (chrematonymy) from the 19th-century railway boom through nationalization and privatization cycles. This study reveals how corporate names encode geographical identity, technological modernity, and commercial strategy. Particularly valuable for scholars of industrial nomenclature and the semiotics of corporate naming in transportation history.

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Eugen Schochenmaier: "The 1938 Onomastics Revolution: Why the Name Researchers Needed a Congress and Its 8 Lasting Impacts"

Schochenmaier provides a historiographic analysis of the 1938 International Congress of Onomastic Sciences - the founding moment of ICOS and modern organized onomastic scholarship. Through archival research, Schochenmaier reconstructs why 1930s name scholars felt the need for international coordination, what the 1938 congress achieved, and how it shaped contemporary onomastic institutions, methodologies, and networks. Essential reading for understanding onomastics as a discipline and ICOS's institutional history.

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BOOK REVIEWS: Recent Onomastic Scholarship

Volume 60 includes eight substantial reviews of major onomastic publications, demonstrating the field's global reach and interdisciplinary breadth.

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Sheila Embleton reviews: Smita Joseph, Proper Names of Telugu Catholics and Kerala Syrian Catholics (LIT Verlag, 2023)

Embleton assesses Joseph's study of Catholic anthroponymy in southern India, where Christian naming traditions intersect with Telugu and Malayalam linguistic structures and caste systems. This review highlights an understudied area: religious minority naming practices in South Asian contexts.

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Oliviu Felecan reviews: Enzo Caffarelli, L'anima medievale nei nomi contemporanei [The Medieval Soul in Contemporary Names] (Leo S. Olschki, 2024)

Felecan reviews Caffarelli's exploration of how medieval Italian anthroponymic traditions persist in modern Italian naming - a study of onomastic continuity and revival. This review signals growing scholarly interest in historical name revivals and their cultural politics.

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Oliviu Felecan reviews: Stéphane Gendron, Noms de lieux en France. Origine et signification (Errance et Picard, 2025)

Felecan assesses Gendron's comprehensive survey of French place-name origins - a reference work synthesizing decades of French toponymic research. This review positions Gendron's contribution within the French toponymic tradition and evaluates its utility for comparative European toponymy.

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Octavian Gordon reviews: Corinne Bonnet (ed.), The Names of the Gods in Ancient Mediterranean Religions (Cambridge, 2024)

Gordon reviews Bonnet's edited volume on theonymy (divine names) in ancient Mediterranean religions - a specialized study at the intersection of onomastics, religious studies, and ancient history. This review highlights how divine naming encodes theology, cosmology, and intercultural religious exchange.

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Maria Chiara Moskopf-Janner reviews: Artur Gałkowski, Italianità nella marchionimia polacca [Italian Character in Polish Brand Names] (Peter Lang, 2024)

Moskopf-Janner reviews Gałkowski's massive study (644 pp.) of Italian-inspired brand names in Poland - an analysis of how "Italianness" functions as a marketing resource in Polish commercial onomastics. This review engages with questions of linguistic prestige, cultural capital, and globalized naming aesthetics.

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Domenico Giuseppe Muscianisi reviews: Caroline Waerzeggers & Melanie M. Groß (eds.), Personal Names in Cuneiform Texts from Babylonia (c. 750–100 BCE) (Cambridge, 2024)

Muscianisi assesses an introduction to Babylonian cuneiform anthroponymy - a specialized reference for ancient Near Eastern name scholars. This review signals the technical sophistication of ancient onomastic studies and the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration between onomasticians and Assyriologists.

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Sabrina Palinkas reviews: Oliviu Felecan & Alina Bugheșiu (eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Onomastics "Name and Naming": (In)correctness in Onomastics (Editura Mega, 2024)

Palinkas reviews the proceedings from ICONN 6, the 2023 Baia Mare conference, assessing the volume's contributions to debates on onomastic normativity, prescription, and usage. This review highlights the ICONN conference series' importance for international onomastic exchange.

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Paula Sjöblom reviews: Paola Cotticelli-Kurras (ed.), Names in Times of Crisis (Narr Francke Attempto, 2025)

Sjöblom reviews a timely volume examining how crises - pandemics, energy shortages, wars - affect naming practices. This review positions the volume within growing scholarly attention to onomastics in emergency contexts and the relationship between crisis and nomenclature.

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OBITUARIES: Remembering Two Onomastic Giants

Stéphane Gendron: "Jean-Pierre Chambon (1952–2025)"

Gendron memorializes the late French linguist and toponymist Jean-Pierre Chambon, whose work on French place-name etymology and historical linguistics profoundly influenced Francophone onomastics. This tribute documents Chambon's scholarly contributions and mentorship legacy.

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Peter Jordan: "Ferjan Ormeling (1942–2025) – An Exceptional Toponymist Has Left Us"

Jordan honors Ferjan Ormeling, the distinguished Dutch cartographer and toponymist whose work on exonyms, toponymic standardization, and international geographical nomenclature shaped UNGEGN (United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names) policies. This obituary celebrates Ormeling's contributions to both theoretical toponymy and applied cartographic practice.

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NOTE: US Place-Name Changes

Peter Jordan: "US Place-Name Changes"

Jordan provides a brief note on recent American toponymic politics, including debates over Confederate memorials in street names and the movement to restore Indigenous place names. This note contextualizes European toponymic politics within a broader transatlantic frame.

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Why This Volume Matters

Onoma Volume 60 captures onomastics at a critical juncture. The thematic section on European toponymic politics arrives amid:

• Ongoing decommunization in Eastern Europe
• Accelerated derussification in Ukraine and Baltic states
• Debates over colonial commemoration in Western Europe
• Rising nationalist mobilization of place-name politics

The volume demonstrates that toponymy is never merely descriptive - it is always political. Place names encode power, memory, and belonging; they are instruments of state-building, ethnic assertion, colonial erasure, and postcolonial resistance. The eight European case studies reveal convergent patterns (decommunization, derussification, nationalist renaming) alongside context-specific dynamics (Czech-Russian tensions, Greek hellenization, Ukrainian wartime naming).

Beyond Europe, the non-themed articles expand onomastic inquiry to African ethnobotany, South Asian religious anthroponymy, Pakistani ethnic conflict, and British industrial history - demonstrating onomastics' global reach and interdisciplinary breadth.

The reviews, obituaries, and note situate this scholarship within living academic networks, honoring past contributions while documenting contemporary developments. Volume 60 thus functions not merely as a research archive but as a snapshot of onomastics as a discipline: its debates, its methods, its international community, and its engagement with urgent political questions.

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Access the Volume

Onoma Volume 60 (2025) is freely available online:
https://onomajournal.org/vol-60/

All articles, reviews, and obituaries are published under open access, with individual DOIs for citation.

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About Onoma

Onoma is the official journal of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS), published annually since 1950. It is the world's premier multilingual onomastic journal, accepting contributions in English, French, and German. Onoma publishes original research, reviews, and scholarly notes across all onomastic subfields: anthroponymy, toponymy, chrematonymy, zoonymy, phytonymy, theonymy, and more.

Indexing: Onoma is indexed in major bibliographic databases including Scopus, MLA International Bibliography, and Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts.

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Congratulations to all contributors, editors, and reviewers for this outstanding volume!

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Keywords: Onoma, ICOS, onomastics, toponymy, anthroponymy, European naming politics, decommunization, derussification, place-name changes, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Romania, Greece, Italy, critical toponymy, onomastic historiography