Glossary
Glossary of Naming and Onomastics
A collection of glossary entries, each subject related to names or linguistics.
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- Abaza
- Abjad
- Abkhaz
- Abugida
- Acehnese
- Adyghe
- African-American Names
- African Names
- Afrikaans
- Afro-Asiatic Language Family
- Agatu
- Aghul
- Agnomen
- Ainu
- Akan
- Akkadian
- Albanian
- Aleut
- Algic Language Family
- Algonquin
- Alphabet
- Alphasyllabary
- Altai
- Altaic Language Family
- American Names
- Amharic
- Anaang
- Ancient Greek
- Ancient Greek Names
- Ancient Hebrew Names
- Anglo-Norman
- Antillean Creole
- Apache
- Arabic
- Arabic Alphabet
- Arabic Names
- Aragonese
- Aramaic
- Aramaic Alphabet
- Arapaho
- Araucanian Language Family
- Arawakan Language Family
- Armenian
- Arthurian Cycle
- Assamese
- Assyrian
- Asturian
- Australian Aboriginal Languages
- Austro-Asiatic Language Family
- Austronesian Language Family
- Avar
- Avestan
- Aymara
- Azerbaijani
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- Baatonum
- Babylonian
- Bahamian Creole
- Bajan
- Balinese
- Balochi
- Baltic Languages
- Bambara
- Bamileke
- Bandial
- Banjar
- Bantu Languages
- Bashkir
- Basque
- Belarusian
- Bemba
- Bengali
- Bengali Alphabet
- Berber Languages
- Bible
- Biblical Names
- Blackfoot
- Black Names
- Bodo
- Bosnian
- Brahmi Alphabet
- Brand Name
- Breton
- British
- Brythonic
- Brythonic Languages
- Buginese
- Bulgarian
- Bulgarian Names
- Burmese
- Burmese Alphabet
- Buryat
- Byname
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- Caló
- Cantonese
- Carian
- Carolingian Cycle
- Catalan
- Caucasian Languages
- Cebuano
- Celtic Languages
- Celtic Names
- Central Atlas Tamazight
- Chadic Languages
- Chamorro
- Chaoshan
- Chechen
- Cherokee
- Chewa
- Cheyenne
- Chickasaw
- Chinese
- Chinese Characters
- Chinese Names
- Chipewyan
- Chippewa
- Chiyao
- Choctaw
- Christian Name
- Christian Names
- Chukchi
- Chuukese
- Chuvash
- Circassian
- Classical Hebrew
- Cognate
- Cognomen
- Comanche
- Cook Islands Māori
- Coptic
- Cornish
- Corsican
- Cree
- Creek
- Creole
- Crimean Tatar
- Croatian
- Cuman
- Cushitic Languages
- Cyrillic Alphabet
- Czech
- Czech and Slovak Names
- Czech Names
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E
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F
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G
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- Gaelic
- Gaelic Languages
- Gaelic Names
- Gagauz
- Galician
- Gallo
- Gamilaraay
- Ganda
- Gaulish
- Ge'ez
- Generation Name
- Georgian
- German
- Germanic Languages
- Germanic Names
- German Names
- Gilaki
- Given Name
- Goidelic Languages
- Goon Reading
- Gothic
- Greek
- Greek Alphabet
- Greek Names
- Greenlandic
- Guanche
- Guarani
- Guernésiais
- Gujarati
- Gujarati Alphabet
- Gurani
- Gurmukhi Alphabet
- Gusii
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- Haida
- Haitian Creole
- Hakka
- Hangul Alphabet
- Hanja
- Hausa
- Hawaiian
- Haya
- Hebrew
- Hebrew Alphabet
- Hebrew Bible
- Hebrew Names
- Hidatsa
- Hiligaynon
- Hindi
- Hindu Names
- Hindu Scripture
- Hiragana
- Hittite
- Hmong
- Hmong-Mien Language Family
- Ho
- Hokkien
- Hopi
- Hungarian
- Hungarian Names
- Hunsrik
- Hurrian
- Hurro-Urartian Language Family
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- Ibibio
- Icelandic
- Idoma
- Igbo
- Igede
- Ijaw
- Illyrian
- Ilocano
- Indian Names
- Indigenous American Languages
- Indo-European
- Indo-European Language Family
- Indo-Iranian Languages
- Indonesian
- Indonesian Names
- Ingush
- Ingvaeonic Languages
- Initial
- Interlingua
- Inuktitut
- Inupiaq
- Invented Names
- Iranian Names
- Irish
- Irish Names
- Iroquoian Language Family
- Isoko
- Istriot
- Italian
- Italian Names
- Izere
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K
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- Kabardian
- Kabyle
- Kalaallisut
- Kalasha
- Kalmyk
- Kan'on Reading
- Kan'yoon Reading
- Kanji
- Kanji Readings
- Kannada
- Kannada Alphabet
- Kanuri
- Karachay-Balkar
- Karakalpak
- Karelian
- Kartvelian Language Family
- Kasem
- Kashmiri
- Katakana
- Kazakh
- Kelabit
- Ket
- Khakas
- Khanty
- Khazar
- Khmer
- Khoekhoen
- Khoisan Languages
- Kiga
- Kikuyu
- Kinyarwanda
- Kirundi
- Koine
- Komi
- Kongo
- Konkani
- Korean
- Korean Names
- Koryak
- Koyra Chiini
- Kumyk
- Kun Reading
- Kurdish
- Kven
- Kyrgyz
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- Ladakhi
- Lak
- Lakota
- Language
- Language Family
- Language Isolate
- Lao
- Last Name
- Late Latin
- Latin
- Latin Alphabet
- Latvian
- Laz
- Lenape
- Lezgian
- Ligurian
- Limburgish
- Limburgish names
- Lingala
- Linguistics
- Literature
- Lithuanian
- Liturgical Language
- Livonian
- Loanword
- Logogram
- Lombard
- Lombardic
- Louisiana Creole
- Low German
- Luba-Kasai
- Luganda
- Luhya
- Lunda
- Luo
- Luxembourgish
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- Maasai
- Macedonian
- Made-up Names
- Madurese
- Madí
- Maguindanao
- Mahabharata
- Malagasy
- Malay
- Malayalam
- Malayalam Alphabet
- Maltese
- Manchu
- Mandarin
- Manding
- Mandinka
- Maninka
- Manipuri
- Manjak
- Mansi
- Manx
- Mao
- Mapuche
- Maranao
- Marathi
- Mari
- Marian Names
- Marshallese
- Matronym
- Matter of Britain
- Matter of France
- Mauritian Creole
- Maya
- Maya Hieroglyphics
- Mayan Language Family
- Mazanderani
- Mbama
- Melanesian Languages
- Mende
- Meroitic
- Mi'kmaq
- Micronesian Languages
- Middle Dutch
- Middle English
- Middle High German
- Middle Low German
- Middle Name
- Middle Persian
- Minangkabau
- Min Bei
- Min Dong
- Mingrelian
- Min Nan
- Miwok
- Mizo
- Modern Greek Names
- Mohawk
- Moksha
- Mongolian
- Mongolic Languages
- Montenegrin
- Mordvin
- Mossi
- Munsee
- Muskogean Language Family
- Muslim Names
- Mwanga
- Mwera
- Mythology
- Māori
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- Na-Dené Language Family
- Nahuatl
- Nakh Languages
- Name
- Name Days
- Name Element
- Name Laws
- Name Meaning
- Namesake
- Names on the Internet
- Nanai
- Nanori
- Nanori Reading
- Narragansett
- Native American Languages
- Nauruan
- Navajo
- Ndebele
- Neapolitan
- Nenets
- Neo-Aramaic
- Nepali
- New Testament
- Ngala
- Nganasan
- Ngarrindjeri
- Ngas
- Nickname
- Niger-Congo Language Family
- Nilo-Saharan Language Family
- Nivkh
- Nkore
- Nobiin
- Nogai
- Nomen
- Norman
- Normans
- North Caucasian Language Family
- Northeast Caucasian Language Family
- Northwest Caucasian Language Family
- Norwegian
- Nsenga
- Nuer
- Numerology
- Numidian
- Nuosu
- Nuu-chah-nulth
- Nyakyusa
- Nyamwezi
- Nyoro
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- Pahlavi
- Pali
- Pama-Nyungan Language Family
- Pampangan
- Pangasinan
- Papiamento
- Papuan Languages
- Pare
- Parthian
- Pashto
- Patronym
- Pawnee
- Pen Name
- Persian
- Persian Names
- Personal Name
- Pet Form
- Pet Name
- Phoenician
- Phoenician Alphabet
- Phrygian
- Picard
- Pictish
- Pidgin
- Piedmontese
- Pintupi
- Pinyin
- Pitjantjatjara
- Place Name
- Polish
- Polish Names
- Polynesian Languages
- Portuguese
- Portuguese Names
- Powhatan
- Praenomen
- Prakrit
- Proper Name
- Protestant Reformation
- Provençal
- Pseudonym
- Punjabi
- Punu
- Puritan Names
- Purépecha
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R
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- Sabaean
- Saint
- Sakha
- Sami
- Samoan
- Sanskrit
- Sardinian
- Scandinavian Languages
- Scandinavian Names
- Scots
- Scottish
- Scottish Names
- Script
- Selkup
- Semitic Languages
- Seneca
- Serbian
- Serbo-Croatian
- Serer
- Shakespeare
- Shakespearian Names
- Shan
- Shawiya
- Shawnee
- Shilha
- Shona
- Shor
- Short Form
- Shoshoni
- Shuadit
- Shuar
- Sicilian
- Sikh Names
- Siksika
- Sindarin
- Sindhi
- Sinhala
- Sinhalese
- Sino-Tibetan Language Family
- Siouan Language Family
- Sioux
- Slavic
- Slavic Languages
- Slavic Names
- Slovak
- Slovak Names
- Slovene
- Somali
- Sorbian
- Sotho
- Spanish
- Spanish Names
- Stage Name
- Sumerian
- Sundanese
- Surname
- Svan
- Swahili
- Swazi
- Swedish
- Syllabary
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- Tabasaran
- Tagalog
- Tahitian
- Tai-Kadai Language Family
- Talysh
- Tamazight
- Tamil
- Tamil Alphabet
- Tanakh
- Tarascan
- Tarifit
- Tashelhit
- Tatar
- Tausug
- Taíno
- Telugu
- Telugu Alphabet
- Teochew
- Thai
- Thai Alphabet
- Thracian
- Tibetan
- Tibetan Alphabet
- Tigrinya
- Title
- Tiv
- Tlingit
- Tobagonian Creole
- Tolkien
- Tonga
- Tongan
- Tooro
- Toponym
- Transcription
- Transliteration
- Transparent Meaning
- Trinidadian Creole
- Tsakonian
- Tshiluba
- Tsonga
- Tswana
- Tuareg
- Tumbuka
- Tungusic Languages
- Tupi
- Turkic Languages
- Turkish
- Turkish Names
- Turkmen
- Tuvan
- Twi
- Tłı̨chǫ
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V
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W
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X
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Y
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Z
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