Onomastics, studies and researchers (Historical overview, Mirdita)

• Author: Arta Malshi
• Position: University of Tirana
• Pages: 75-83

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O

nomastics

,

stu

d

ies an

d

researc

h

ers (Historica

l

overview

,

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ita)

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Sc.

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niversity o

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Tirana

Abs

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T

he use of names and fi nding, as part of human identity, appear simultaneously with the birth

of culture and propagation, change over time, some of them are forgo en and some are out

of use, much of it depending on historical - social and cultural circumstances that inhabits the

p

opulation of every country.

O

nomastics is a science that deals with the study of names o

f

p

roperties, things, waters.

I

t consists of two groups of names

:

m

any (personal) names or anthroponyms and tire family names or patronymics;

the names of the qualitative service, grouped according to the following: icons or names of

cities, towns, villa

g

es, nei

g

hborhoods, etc (Cimohochowski, 2004)

.

I

n this sense, onomastics is a raw material with lin

g

uistic a ention in the lan

g

ua

g

e of historical

a

nd cultural research and research for the development of

I

llyrian-

A

lbanian connections

(Shkurtaj, 2001). Main objective of this manuscript is the analysis of

O

nomastics of the

A

lbanian

l

anguage and history of people

.

Ke

y

words:

t

oponyms, anthroponies, oikonims, ethnonyms, hydronyms

.

I

ntr

oduc

t

io

n

O

nomastica has been the subject o

f

studies, which has a racted not onl

y

scholars

d

omesticall

y

, but also the initiative o

f

f

oreign

A

lbanologists.

I

will tr

y

to summarize a

d

escri

p

tive histor

y

o

f

researchers dealing with treatments in the

fi

eld o

f

A

lbanolog

y

.

T

he creator o

f

A

lbanian onomastics is Pro

f

. Cabej, Thimi Mitko and Christo

f

oridhi

.

In recent years, interesting reviews and results on Albanian onomastics were provided

by

Ul

cinj sc

h

o

l

ars in Montenegro an

d

Kosovo

,

1

suc

h

as t

h

e onomastica

l

reviews

by

M

. Halimi o

f

Qemal Murati

(

Murati, 1993

)

.

A

nother im

p

ortant work in the

fi

eld o

f

A

lbanolog

y

was Teodor Kavaliot's dictionar

y

"

A

romanian-New Greek -

A

lbanian"

p

ublished in 1770 in Venice. The dictionar

y

o

f

Geogra

p

hical Names o

f

the Re

p

ublic o

f

A

lbania com

p

iled b

y

E

mil La

f

e and Nikoleta

Cikuli; Dictionar

y

o

f

A

lbanian

p

atronage b

y

Lirim Bidollari (Bidollari, 2011),

O

nomastics an

d

E

t

h

no

l

inguistics (S

hk

urtaj, 2010) are ot

h

er im

p

ortant stu

d

ies in t

h

is

fi

e

ld

.

O

nomastics has been in the s

p

otlight o

f

researchers.

A

mong the earliest researches on

t

he anti

q

uit

y

o

f

the

A

lbanian language, as one o

f

the oldest languages in the Balkans,

s

cholars have addressed

p

recisel

y

the onomastics o

f

the lands where our ancestors

were.

O

nomastic material was used b

y

A

lbanian Renaissance but not scienti

fi

call

y

documented. Such researchers were: G. Ma

y

er, N. Jokli, P. Krechmeri, F. No

p

cza,

A

.

D

esnic

k

aja, F. Bo

pp

i, J. Hanni, J. R. Ksi

l

an

d

er.

I

m

p

ortant

p

rinci

p

les develo

p

ed b

y

Tunman include: “The historian, like the

naturalist, must descend, ste

p

b

y

ste

p

, into the basic subject ma er o

f

the

p

henomena