onomastics

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌɒ.nəʊˈmæs.tɪks/
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• US: /ˌɑː.noʊˈmæs.tɪks/
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• US: /ˌɑː.nəˈmæs.tɪks/
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• CMU ARPABET: AA2 N AH0 M AE1 S T IH0 K S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h1nómn̥ Proto-Graeco-Phrygian *ónomã Proto-Indo-European *h1nómn̥ Proto-Hellenic *ónomə Ancient Greek ὄνομᾰ (ónomă) Ancient Greek -ᾰ́ζω (-ắzō) Ancient Greek ὀνομάζω (onomázō) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τος (-tos) ▲ Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós) Ancient Greek ὀνομᾰστῐκός (onomăstĭkós)bor. English onomastic Old English -as Middle English -es English -s English onomastics 1936, from the adjective onomastic (“of or belonging to naming”) (1716) with a suffix -s, from French onomastique, from Ancient Greek ὀνομαστικός (onomastikós), from ὀνομαστός (onomastós, “named”), form of ὀνομάζω (onomázō, “I name”), from ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”), from Proto-Indo-European *h1nómn̥ (“name”) (whence English name).

58 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: onomatologie — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Afrikaans: naamkunde — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Afrikaans: onomastiek — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Albanian: onomastikë — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Armenian: հատկանվանաբանություն (hatkanvanabanutʻyun) — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Basque: onomastika — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Belarusian: анама́стыка (anamástyka) — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Bulgarian: онома́стика (onomástika) — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Catalan: onomàstica — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Chinese Mandarin: 專名學 /专名学 (zhuānmíngxué) — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Czech: onomastika — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Dutch: naamkunde — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Dutch: onomastiek — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Esperanto: onomastiko — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Esperanto: nomscienco — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Faroese: navnafrøði — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Faroese: fólkanavnafrøði — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Finnish: nimistöntutkimus — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• French: onomastique — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Galician: onomástica — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• German: Onomastik — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• German: Namenkunde — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• German: Onomatologie — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• German: Onomasiologie — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• German: Namenforschung — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• German: Bezeichnungslehre — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Hungarian: névtan — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Hungarian: onomasztika — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Icelandic: nafnfræði — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Ido: nomaro — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Italian: onomastica — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Japanese: 固有名詞学 (koyūmeishi-gaku) — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Northern Kurdish: navnasî — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Northern Kurdish: onomastîk — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Macedonian: ономатологија (onomatologija) — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Macedonian: ономастика (onomastika) — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Malay: onomastik — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Mongolian: нэрзүй (nerzüj) — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Mongolian: ᠨᠡᠷ᠎ᠡ ᠵᠦᠢ (ner-e ǰüi) — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Polish: onomastyka — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Polish: nazewnictwo — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Portuguese: onomástica — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Romanian: onomastică — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Romanian: onomatologie — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Russian: онома́стика (onomástika) — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Serbo-Croatian: имено̀сло̄вље — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Serbo-Croatian: онома̀стика — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Serbo-Croatian: imenòslōvlje — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Serbo-Croatian: onomàstika — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Slovak: onomastika — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Slovene: imenoslovje — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Slovene: onomastika — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Spanish: onomástica — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Swedish: onomastik — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Swedish: namnforskning — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Thai: นามศาสตร์ — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Ukrainian: онома́стика (onomástyka) — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names
• Yiddish: אָנאָמאַסטיק (onomastik) — branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names