A LINGUISTIC MAPPING OF HAGIOTOPONYMS IN PRESENT-DAY ROMANIA(N)
A LINGUISTIC MAPPING OF HAGIOTOPONYMS IN PRESENT-DAY ROMANIA(N)

Summary/Abstract: Traditionally, toponyms have played a greater role in historic and geographic and more recently in cultural and ethnologic as well as folklore contexts than in linguistics. Nevertheless, toponymy has an essentially linguistic nature, since its main concern is to identify the particular terms which account for the origins of place names. Although literature has considered the etymology and nature of toponymic sources, names of saints have been most often avoided in approaches to both international and Romanian toponymy. This paper maps focuses on the hagiotoponyms which have survived in the geographical nomenclature since the 14th century to this day and describes them from the formal, structural and distributional perspective, with both synchronic and diachronic references to their present-day Romanian usage.

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