Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream is about true love and felicitous marriage as essentials of both natural and social order. With three interwoven plots, Shakespeare’s names and references reflect three types of sources, each with associative possibilities relevant to the basic themes. The main plot is about Athenian nobles whose names draw symbolic meaning from Greek mythology. It focuses ...

Seleucos I and the Cult of Zeus Nikatôr In order to study cult Nikatôr, six Greek inscriptions (one from northern Syria five southern Anatolia) are gathered commented. The origin, diffusion longevity evoked, since it was vivid until IIIrd century A.D. in eastern Mediterranean, mainly Taurus (Pamphylia, Lycia, Pisidia Phrygia Paroreios). Accordingly, also connection with onomastics numismatics, ...

This study is based on anthroponomastics (anthroponymy), the of personal names, which one principal branches onomastics: proper names all kinds. In this study, Makkan males and females are investigated hoping to shed some light naming system applicable in city Makkah, particular, Saudi Arabia general. Thus, attempts answer following questions: 1- What socio-cultural aspects anthroponomastics? 2...

Each year, the Editorial Board of NAMES reviews articles that have been published in journal to select winners for its prestigious Best Article Year Award. In 2021, deliberation process was delayed due COVID. However, throughout Winter and Spring 2023, members carefully reviewed all appeared four issues released 2021. Publications were assessed scientific innovation, academic writing style, res...

In the framework of cognitive linguistics, metaphor is considered as a general mechanism that plays fundamental role in human thinking and understanding, creation our social, cultural, psychological reality, while also impacting language use. One its special types, image metaphor, appears name-giving serves basis specific toponym type. With reference primarily to Hungarian toponymic corpus and,...