People's Names
Subtitle: A Cross-Cultural Reference Guide to the Proper Use of over 40,000 Personal and Familial Names in over 100 Cultures
Publisher: McFarland & Company; McFarland & Co.
Published: January 1997
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 613
ISBN-13: 9780786401871
Subjects: Family history; Personal names; Reference; Baby Names; Genealogy; Personal & Practical Guides; Names; Names, Personal
Table of contents: label: Acknowledgments
title: vii; label: Introduction
title: xiii; title: Contemporary Names; title: Western Europe; label: English
title: 1; label: Scottish
title: 18; label: Irish
title: 25; label: Welsh
title: 29; label: Cornish
title: 33; label: French
title: 39; label: Dutch and Flemish
title: 54; label: German
title: 61; label: Introduction to Scandinavian Naming
title: 70; label: Danish
title: 71; label: Swedish
title: 74; label: Norwegian
title: 77; label: Icelandic, a note
title: 80; label: Hispanic
title: 80; label: Portuguese
title: 90; label: Italian
title: 94; title: Eastern Europe; label: Finnish
title: 103; label: Estonian
title: 106; label: Russian
title: 109; label: Georgian
title: 119; label: Ukrainian
title: 120; label: Belarusan
title: 123; label: Lithuanian
title: 129; label: Latvian
title: 132; label: Polish
title: 133; label: Hungarian
title: 144; label: Romanian
title: 147; label: Czech and Slovak
title: 149; title: Eastern Mediterranean; label: Slovinski
title: 161; label: Bulgarian and Macedonian
title: 170; label: Albanian
title: 174; label: Greek
title: 177; label: Turkish
title: 180; label: Armenian
title: 184; label: Israeli
title: 188; label: Lebanese
title: 192; label: Arabic
title: 194; label: Azerbaijani, a note
title: 206; label: Afghani, a note
title: 207; title: South Asia; label: Himalayan: Bhutan, Tibet, etc.
title: 208; label: Nepalese
title: 209; label: Indian
title: 211; label: Sri Lankan
title: 225; label: Thai
title: 226; label: Cambodian
title: 230; label: Vietnamese
title: 232; label: Laotian
title: 236; label: Burmese or Myanmarese
title: 238; label: Malaysian and Indonesian
title: 240; label: Other Southeast Asian Peoples
title: 246; title: North Asia; label: Chinese
title: 248; label: Japanese
title: 252; label: Korean
title: 259; label: Mongolian
title: 262; title: The Paciﬁc; label: Filipino
title: 266; label: Micronesian
title: 268; label: Aboriginal Australian
title: 274; label: Hawai’ian
title: 275; label: Hawaii
title: 283; label: Tahitian
title: 284; label: Samoan
title: 286; label: Maori
title: 288; label: Malagasy (Madagascar),  a note
title: 290; title: Africa; label: Introduction to African  Naming
title: 292; label: Assorted—Igbo, Ewe,  Ovambu, etc.
title: 294; label: Swahili
title: 314; label: Sesotho
title: 322; label: Yoruba
title: 325; label: Nigerian
title: 328; label: Ethiopian
title: 329; label: Tuareg
title: 332; title: North America; label: Introduction to Native  American Naming
title: 334; label: Assorted—Iroquois, Hopi,  Apache, etc.
title: 336; label: Delaware (Lenni Lenape)
title: 345; label: Cherokee
title: 347; label: Sioux (Lakota)
title: 353; label: Cheyenne
title: 355; title: Historical Names; title: Old Names; label: Breton
title: 363; label: Yiddish
title: 367; label: Victorian American
title: 370; title: Renaissance and Reformation (1400–1700); label: Renaissance English
title: 374; label: Renaissance German
title: 385; label: Renaissance French
title: 387; label: Renaissance Italian
title: 390; label: Renaissance Spanish, a note
title: 397; label: Nahuatl (Aztec)
title: 398; label: Mayan
title: 400; label: Quechua (Inca)
title: 409; title: Middle Ages (1100–1450); label: Medieval French
title: 413; label: Norman
title: 414; label: Medieval English
title: 416; label: Medieval German
title: 421; label: Medieval Italian
title: 422; label: Provençal
title: 423; label: Catalan and Aragonese
title: 425; label: Basque
title: 428; label: Byzantine
title: 430; title: Dark Ages (300–1100); label: Norse
title: 435; label: Saxon
title: 441; label: British
title: 452; label: Gothic and Frankish
title: 456; label: Old German Roots
title: 460; label: Late Latin, a note
title: 465; label: Neo-Punic
title: 466; label: Asia, a note
title: 467; title: Ancient Europe (3000 b.c.–c.e. 300); label: Germanic Names, a note
title: 468; label: Gaellic (Irish)
title: 468; label: Latin
title: 472; label: Etruscan
title: 489; label: Celtic (Gaulish & Britannic)
title: 498; label: Iranian: Persian, Mede,  Mitanni, etc.
title: 506; label: Hellenic
title: 509; label: Hebrew
title: 523; label: Early Sanskrit
title: 530; label: Punic and Phoenician
title: 537; label: Ancient Egyptian
title: 542; label: Introduction to  Mesopotamian Naming
title: 551; label: Assyrian and Babylonian
title: 552; label: Akkadian
title: 566; label: Other Semitic
title: 573; label: Sumerian
title: 575; label: Ancient Chinese, a note
title: 580; label: Indus Valley, a note
title: 581; title: Names Without Languages; label: Shadow Languages
title: 584; label: Using the Sound Tables
title: 585; label: Setting Up a Shadow  Language
title: 585; label: The Sound Tables
title: 587; label: Shadow Roots
title: 592; label: An Example of a Shadow  Language
title: 595; label: Annotated Select Bibliography
title: 601; label: Index
title: 607