Czech Toponyms of Foreign Origin as Witnesses of Multicultural Contacts in Central Europe
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SYSNO ASEP
0338866
Document Type
C - Proceedings Paper (int. conf.)
R&D Document Type
Conference Paper
Title
Czech Toponyms of Foreign Origin as Witnesses of Multicultural Contacts in Central Europe
Author(s)
Harvalík, Milan (UJC-A)
Source Title
Names in Multi-Lingual, Multi-Cultural and Multi-Ethnic Contact. - Toronto : York University, 2009 / Ahrens W. ; Embleton S. ; Lapierre A.
- ISBN 978-1-55014-521-2
Pages
s. 473-478
Number of pages
6 s.
Publication form
CD-ROM - CD-ROM
Action
Names in Contact: Names in a Multi-Lingual, Multi-Cultural, Multi-Ethnic World
Event date
17.08.2008-22.08.2008
VEvent location
Toronto
Country
CA - Canada
Event type
WRD
Language
eng - English
Country
CA - Canada
Keywords
Czech toponyms ; language contacts ; Central Europe
Subject RIV
AI - Linguistics
CEZ
AV0Z90610518 - UJC-A (2005-2011)
Annotation
The fact that on the territory of the present Czech Republic different nations and ethnic groups came to close contacts is also reflected in Czech toponymy where several layers of names of foreign origin can be distinguished. Besides the oldest toponyms (mostly hydronyms and oronyms) from the pre-Slavonic substrata (Morava, Odra, Labe, Jizera; Říp, Oškobrh) younger German names (adapted in various degree into Czech – e.g. Varnsdorf, Frýdlant, Liberec) occur often on the whole Czech territory. In the toponymy of the Eastern part of the Czech Republic (especially in Eastern Moravia in Carpathians) names of Romanian (or more precisely Balkan) origin can be found (Grúň), which have been introduced there with the so-called Wallachian colonisation. Czech toponymy has been considerably enriched with the geographical names borrowed from the Bible (Tábor, Oreb, Sion, Jordán) and with toponyms from remote regions (Temešvár, Amerika, Habeš, Port Artur, Korea) as well.
