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Today, Žitný ostrov is a bilingual Slovak-Hungarian territory along the river Danube and the Little Danube, and since the 10th century it has been formed as a multi-ethnic space. The recently completed diachronic research on hydronymy in this area has created the conditions for a more comprehensive study of the dynamics of ethnic relations in the oikonymy of the region. The article presents an analysis of medieval oikonyms, documented from the beginning of the 12th century. It brings a linguistic reconstruction of originally Slavic names, adopted and adapted by the Hungarian and occasionally also by the German ethnic population, and an analysis of original Hungarian and German oikonyms. The presented results specify i) the knowledge of the development of demographics of the area, ii) the extent of foreign ethnic interventions in the onymic system, iii) ethnic and interlingual relations, iv) the mode of interlingual adaptation of older oikonyms (Slovak – Hungarian, Slovak – German, Hungarian – German, German – Slovak, and finally Hungarian – Slovak), and v) the extent and forms of coexistence of Slovak, Hungarian and German oikonyms in the Middle Ages with an overlap to the present.
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Today, Žitný ostrov is a bilingual Slovak-Hungarian territory along the river Danube and the Little Danube, and since the 10th century it has been formed as a multi-ethnic space. The recently completed diachronic research on hydronymy in this area has created the conditions for a more comprehensive study of the dynamics of ethnic relations in the oikonymy of the region. The article presents an analysis of medieval oikonyms, documented from the beginning of the 12th century. It brings a linguistic reconstruction of originally Slavic names, adopted and adapted by the Hungarian and occasionally also by the German ethnic population, and an analysis of original Hungarian and German oikonyms. The presented results specify i) the knowledge of the development of demographics of the area, ii) the extent of foreign ethnic interventions in the onymic system, iii) ethnic and interlingual relations, iv) the mode of interlingual adaptation of older oikonyms (Slovak – Hungarian, Slovak – German, Hungarian – German, German – Slovak, and finally Hungarian – Slovak), and v) the extent and forms of coexistence of Slovak, Hungarian and German oikonyms in the Middle Ages with an overlap to the present.

Dynamics of coexistence of Slavic, Hungarian and German oikonyms of the Žitný ostrov area

Pedagogická fakulta Trnavskej univerzity

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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Today, Žitný ostrov is a bilingual Slovak-Hungarian territory along the river Danube and the Little Danube, and since the 10th century it has been formed as a...

Dynamics of coexistence of Slavic, Hungarian and German oikonyms of the Žitný ostrov area

Published Online: Sep 27, 2021

Page range: 229 - 248

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2021-0025

Keywords
oikonym, ethnic group, linguistic reconstruction, adaptation, Žitný ostrov, Slavs, Hungarians, Germans

© 2021 Juraj Hladký, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Dynamics of coexistence of Slavic, Hungarian and German oikonyms of the Žitný ostrov area

Published Online: Sep 27, 2021

Page range: 229 - 248

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2021-0025

Keywordsoikonym, ethnic group, linguistic reconstruction, adaptation, Žitný ostrov, Slavs, Hungarians, Germans

© 2021 Juraj Hladký, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
oikonym, ethnic group, linguistic reconstruction, adaptation, Žitný ostrov, Slavs, Hungarians, Germans