Dictionary Of Russian Personal Names
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| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 188 |
| Release | : 2016-11-11 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1512800473 |
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
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| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 1967 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : |
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
| Author | : Patrick Hanks |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2006-07-27 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 0191578541 |
This Dictionary is part of the Oxford Reference Collection: using sustainable print-on-demand technology to make the acclaimed backlist of the Oxford Reference programme perennially available in hardback format. The fascinating and informative Dictionary of First Names covers over 6,000 names in common use in English, including the very newest names as well as traditional names. From Alice to Zanna and Adam to Zola this book will answer all your questions: it will tell you the age, origin, and meaning of the name, as well as how it has fared in terms of popularity, and who the famous fictional or historical bearers for the name have been. It covers alternative spellings, short forms and pet forms, and masculine and feminine forms, as well as help with pronunciation. The book includes extensive appendices covering names from languages including Scottish, Irish, French, German, Italian, Arabic, and Chinese names. Tables of the most popular names by year and by region are also included. From the traditional to the rare and unconventional, this book will tell you everything you need to know about names.
| Author | : Alexander Beider |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1052 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Patrick Hanks |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 2094 |
| Release | : 2003-05-08 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 0195081374 |
Where did your surname come from? Do you know how many people in the United States share it? What does it tell you about your lineage?From the editor of the highly acclaimed Dictionary of Surnames comes the most extensive compilation of surnames in America. The result of 10 years of research and 30 consulting editors, this massive undertaking documents 70,000 surnames of Americans across the country. A reference source like no other, it surveys each surname giving its meaning, nationality, alternate spellings, common forenames associated with it, and the frequency of each surname and forename.The Dictionary of American Family Names is a fascinating journey throughout the multicultural United States, offering a detailed look at the meaning and frequency of surnames throughout the country. For students studying family genealogy, others interested in finding out more about their own lineage, or lexicographers, the Dictionary is an ideal place to begin research.
| Author | : Rella Israly Cohn |
| Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
| Total Pages | : 430 |
| Release | : 2008-09-05 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1461674549 |
This is a lexicon of Yiddish given names, preceded by four chapters of material that explains the lexical conventions, the historical environment, and the research applicable to this subject.
| Author | : Henryk Jankowski |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 1306 |
| Release | : 2006-10-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9047418425 |
This dictionary, the first of its kind in Turkological studies, will prove to be an invaluable research tool for those studying the Crimea, Ukraine, as well as Eurasian Nomadism. It is the result of year-long painstaking research into the etymology of Crimean pre-Russian habitation names, providing insight into the Turkic, Greek, Caucasian place-names in a comparative context, as well as the histories of these cities, towns and villages themselves. The dictionary contains approximately 1,500 entries, preceded by an introduction with notes on the history of the Crimea and the structure of habitation names. For the reader’s convenience, many entries are classified in indices which follow the main part of the book. Additionally, three detailed primary source maps, separately indexed, are appended to the dictionary, as well as a map showing the administration network of the Crimea at the end of the Crimean Tatar Khanate.
| Author | : Teresa Norman |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 644 |
| Release | : 2003-07-01 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 9780399528941 |
One of the most comprehensive baby name reference guides available, featuring more than 30,000 baby names, has been revised and expanded. Each chapter focuses on names from specific countries, regions, and ethnicities, including details about traditional naming customs. Each entry contains various spellings and pronunciations, as well as the name's meaning, history, etymology, and derivations.
| Author | : Allen Kent |
| Publisher | : CRC Press |
| Total Pages | : 558 |
| Release | : 1976-12-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780824720193 |
"The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science provides an outstanding resource in 33 published volumes with 2 helpful indexes. This thorough reference set--written by 1300 eminent, international experts--offers librarians, information/computer scientists, bibliographers, documentalists, systems analysts, and students, convenient access to the techniques and tools of both library and information science. Impeccably researched, cross referenced, alphabetized by subject, and generously illustrated, the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science integrates the essential theoretical and practical information accumulating in this rapidly growing field."
| Author | : Boris Feldblyum |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : |
"Based on a book published in Russia in 1911, this work presents to the English-speaking reader a comprehensive collection of Jewish given names used in Russia at the turn of the 20th century--more than 6,000 names in all. These names are also included in a dictionary of root names which shows its etymology as well as all variants of the names identifying them as kinnui (everyday names), variants or distortions. The introductory portion of the book is a historical essay that reviews the evolution of Jewish given names from biblical times through the late 19th century in Russia."--Publisher description.
