ON THE PROBLEMATIC SURNAMES IN THE DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN FAMILY NAMES
Marc Picard
Broschiertes Buch

ON THE PROBLEMATIC SURNAMES IN THE DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN FAMILY NAMES

A GENEALOGICALLY BASED REANALYSIS OF THE UNIDENTIFIED AND UNCERTAIN ORIGINS

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In the three-volume Dictionary of American Family Names, edited by Patrick Hanks (Oxford University Press, 2003), some 1,300 entries have been labeled as either origin unidentified or origin uncertain. This is due in great part to the fact that the largely traditional methods of onomastic research that were utilized in this work are insufficient to pierce through the radical Americanization' of so many foreign surnames. The extensive phonological and orthographical modifications they have undergone can often render their etymology unrecoverable if one relies exclusively on matching their prese...