LES NOMS DE LOCALITÉS DU PAYS DE HAłEG ET L’INFLUENCE SLAVE
PLACE NAMES IN HAŃEG COUNTY AND THE SLAVIC INFLUENCE

Summary/Abstract: Place names in HaŃeg County and the Slavic influence. This study sets out to closely examine the way in which the Slavic influence is mirrored in toponymy in HaŃeg County, or, more precisely, the way in which Slavic elements are to be found at the root of place names in that region. At a first glance, one might be tempted to conclude that the naming of habitations was entirely the making of Slavic peoples. In our opinion, however, it was the Romanians who did the naming; only they resorted to Slavic elements when doing so. They seem to have borrowed common nouns and, less frequently, proper names too, which they later incorporated in certain place-names, taking into account the peculiar geographical position of those places. Habitations usually took on proper names that were actually the landowners’.

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