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“An -ics,-vics is not Hungarian”
"A Chapter from the History of the Magyarization of Names"
academic paper by Farkas Tamás
With the rise of nationalism, besides their identifying function, family names have become a kind of ethnic symbol, a possible means of expressing the collective identity of their bearers.
During the earlier stages of spontaneous contacts between peoples and languages, foreign sounding family names had started to change so as to sound Hungarian, while during the 19th century this gave place to a process of conscious, official change of family names, in our case to the Magyarization of family names. This paper sums up the thinking in the background, the examples and forms of realization of the process (change of name, conscious change of name, pseudonym) in the case of
typical family names of Serbian origin ending in -ics (-ovics, -evics) in Hungary.
The author presents the typical ways these names were changed and also the role that the name endings had in this change; he also refers shortly to the reverse process, that is, the Slavification or conscious Slavification of Hungarian family names.
Keywords: language contacts, assimilation, ethnic symbol, family name, language change, Magyarization of one’s surname, surnames ending in -ics (-ovics, -evics).
The paper is available in Hungarian language here:
http://adattar.vmmi.org/cikkek/1791/letunk_2009.02_06_farkas_tamas.pdf
surnames ( partial index) :
Vojnits, Davidovics, Herskovits, Petrovics, Simoncsits, Zsalakovics , Zsalakó, Sinkovics ,Sinkó, Bajnovics , Bajna, Radovics , Radó, Kovácsics , Kovács, Gasparovics ,Gáspár, Markovics ,Markó , Márk, Jankovics , Jankó , Janka,Gerevich, Gerei, Sztankovics, Tánkó, Grkinić , Szerbi, Radics,Jankovics, Markovics, Keszeits ; Keszei, Mándics; Mándi Szenteleky, . Petőfi....
Posted : 19/05/2012 9:16 pm
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Also an academic paper , this one is in Croatian language:
The anthroponymy and toponymy of the Dalmatian Croats in Northern Hungary by Živko Mandić
Summary:
In the introduction of this article the author presents a short overview of the history and dialect of the Croatian (Dalmatian) community in the northern part of Hungary, in the city of Szentendre. On the basis of rich archival material and information provided by the oldest local residents, the article analyses the following: personal names (specifically national names, saints’names, the correct forms of male and female names, and the nicknames derived from them), surnames, personal and family nicknames, and microtoponyms. At the end of the text are a list of informants, a bibliography, and questionnaires.
http://hrcak.srce.hr/file/35057
Ključne riječi: osobna imena, prezimena, nadimci, mikrotoponimi
Key words: proper names, surnames, nicknames, place names
Posted : 19/05/2012 9:24 pm