Place name book

Place-name books represent a special category of scientific lexicons . In historical place-name books, the names of the respective names are given in historical documents in addition to the names of the (human) settlements in a certain area. In linguistic place name books, the etymology (= meaning and linguistic development) of the name is explained onomastically .

Development of place name books

The development of place name books is a time-consuming undertaking that also requires in-depth knowledge of various areas.

On the one hand, the historical evidence of the names must be obtained from historical documents and other documents (such as property registers, contracts, etc.), which requires extensive research in the archives in question. Knowledge of historical fonts (e.g. Kurrent script ), the structure of certain types of documents and the language of the documents (e.g. Latin or Middle High German ) are helpful for evaluating the documents examined .

In order to work out the etymology of place names , extensive linguistic knowledge, especially the history of sounds in the languages in question, is required. The original, unadulterated form of the name (e.g. through folk etymologies or hypercorrections) is determined or reconstructed from the oldest documented names and the dialectal pronunciation . This is where the etymological interpretation of the name begins.

In folk etymologies is reinterpretations of no more understood by the name speakers. Example: The original Roman name of the city of Klagenfurt (capital of Carinthia ), l'aquiliu that of on to future Slavs with the Slavic word cvilja was brought, "Lamentation" in the context, what the complaints wade was taken into German.

In Hyper corrections is false corrections such as Verhochdeutschungen supposedly dialectal forms.

List of place name books

Germany

Lower Saxony

Jürgen Udolph (Hrsg.): Lower Saxon Place Name Book (NOB) , Publishing House for Regional History, Bielefeld since 1998, 28 volumes, DNB 953348598

Saxony

Susanne Baudisch, Karlheinz Blaschke : Historical place directory of Saxony , new edition, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-937209-15-8
Ernst Eichler , Hans Walther (Hrsg.): Historical book of place names of Saxony , edited by Ernst Eichler, Volkmar Hellfritzsch, Hans Walther and Erika Weber, 3 volumes, series sources and research on Saxon history 21, de Gruyter-Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-05-003728-8 ( link to the digitized version in the Saxon State and University Library Dresden )
- Volume I: A – L ( link to the digitized version in the Saxon State and University Library Dresden ),
- Volume II: M – Z ( link to the digitized version in the Saxon State and University Library Dresden ),
- Volume III: Apparatus and Register ( link to the digitized version in the Saxon State and University Library Dresden ),
Ernst Eichler , Hans Walther : The place names in the Gau Daleminze , Berlin 1967

Austria

Kranzmayer, Eberhard: Place names book of Carinthia . Klagenfurt 1956
Kranzmayer, Eberhard; Bürger, Karl: Burgenland settlement name book. Eisenstadt 1957
Schuster, Elisabeth: The Etymology of Lower Austrian Place Names. Vienna: Association for Regional Studies of Lower Austria
Wiesinger, Peter (Ed.): Place name book of the state of Upper Austria . Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Volume 1: Bertol-Raffin, Elisabeth and Wiesinger, Peter: The place names of the political district Braunau am Inn (southern Innviertel). 1989
- Volume 2: Bertol-Raffin, Elisabeth and Wiesinger, Peter: The place names of the political district Ried im Innkreis (Middle Innviertel). 1991
- Volume 3: Reutner, Richard and Wiesinger, Peter: The place names of the political district Schärding (Northern Innviertel). 1994
- Volume 4: Reutner, Richard; Bito, Helen and Wiesinger, Peter: The place names of the political district Vöcklabruck (southern Hausruckviertel). 1997
- Volume 6: Reutner, Richard and Wiesinger, Peter: The place names of the political district of Gmunden (southwest Traunviertel). 1999
- Volume 7: Karl Hohensinner and Peter Wiesinger with the collaboration of Hermann Scheuringer and Michael Schefbäck: The place names of the political districts Kirchdorf an der Krems, Steyr-Stadt and Steyr-Land (south-eastern Traunviertel). 2001
- Volume 11: Karl Hohensinner and Peter Wiesinger: The place names of the political districts of Perg and Freistadt (eastern Mühlviertel). 2003
- Volume 10: Karl Hohensinner and Peter Wiesinger: The place names of the political district Urfahr-Umgebung (Middle Mühlviertel). 2006

Switzerland

see the place name book of the canton of Bern

Liechtenstein

Nipp, Eugen: The Romanic place and field names of the Principality of Liechtenstein . Dissertation, University of Vienna

Italy

Baliari-Soust, Roberto E .: Not only Trento ... German place and field names between the Salurner Klause and the Wiesentheiner level / Toponimi germanici fra la Chiusa di salorno e la pianura vicentina. Cologne 1987

France

Dauzat, Albert: La Toponymie Française . Paris 1960
Fröhlich, Karl: Lorraine place names from the point of view of their formation. Dissertation, University of Vienna

Individual evidence

↑ Paul Gleirscher: How Aquiliu to Klagenfurt was, in: ibid .: Mystery Carinthia. The legendary, the hidden, the excavated. Carinthia, Klagenfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-85378-603-1 , pp. 59-65.

[1] Paul Gleirscher: How Aquiliu to Klagenfurt was, in: ibid .: Mystery Carinthia. The legendary, the hidden, the excavated. Carinthia, Klagenfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-85378-603-1 , pp. 59-65.