Behind the Name: Glossary

the etymology and history of first names

Glossary

This is a collection of glossary entries, each subject related to names or linguistics.

A, B, C

Abjad
Abugida
African-American Names
African Names
Afro-Asiatic Language Family
Agnomen
Akan
Akkadian
Albanian
Algic Language Family
Algonquin
Alphabet
Alphasyllabary
Altaic Language Family
American Names
Amharic
Ancient Celtic Names
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek Names
Ancient Hebrew Names
Apache
Arabic
Arabic Alphabet
Arabic Names
Aramaic
Aramaic Alphabet
Araucanian Language Family
Arawakan Language Family
Armenian

Assyrian
Australian Aboriginal Languages
Austro-Asiatic Language Family
Austronesian Language Family
Avestan
Azerbaijani
Babylonian
Baltic Languages
Bantu Languages
Basque
Belarusian
Bengali
Berber Languages
Bible
Biblical Names
Black Names
Brahmi Alphabet
Brand Name
Breton
British
Brythonic Languages
Bulgarian
Bulgarian Names
Burmese
Burmese Alphabet
Byname
Cantonese
Catalan
Caucasian Language Family

Celtic Languages
Celtic Names
Chadic Languages
Chechen
Cheyenne
Chichewa
Chinese
Chinese Characters
Chinese Names
Chiyao
Choctaw
Christian Name
Christian Names
Classical Hebrew
Cognate
Cognomen
Comanche
Coptic
Cornish
Corsican
Cree
Creek
Croatian
Cushitic Languages
Cyrillic Alphabet
Czech
Czech and Slovak Names
Czech Names

D, E, F

Dakota
Danish
Devangari Alphabet
Dialect
Diminutive
Dithematic
Dravidian Language Family
Dutch
Dutch Names
Egyptian
Egyptian Hieroglyphics
Egyptian Languages

Element
English
English Names
Eskimo-Aleut Language Family
Esperanto
Estonian
Ethiopic
Etruscan
Etymology
European Names
Euskara
Ewe

Family Name
Farsi
Filiation
Finnish
First Name
Forename
Formal Name
French
French Names
Frisian

G, H, I

Gaelic
Gaelic Languages
Gaelic Names
Galician
Gaulish
Ge'ez
Generation Name
Georgian
German
Germanic Languages
Germanic Names
German Names
Given Name
Goidelic Languages
Gothic
Greek
Greek Alphabet
Greek Names

Greenlandic
Gujarati
Hangul Alphabet
Hanja
Hausa
Hawaiian
Hebrew
Hebrew Alphabet
Hebrew Names
Hidatsa
Hindi
Hindu Names
Hiragana
Hokkien
Hungarian
Hungarian Names
Ibibio
Icelandic

Igbo
Illyrian
Indian Names
Indo-European Language Family
Indo-Iranian Languages
Indonesian
Indonesian Names
Initial
Inuktitut
Invented Names
Iranian Names
Irish
Irish Names
Iroquoian Language Family
Italian
Italian Names

J, K, L

Japanese
Japanese Names
Javanese
Jewish Names
Jin
Kanji
Kanuri
Kashmiri
Katakana
Kazakh

Khmer
Kikuyu
Korean
Korean Names
Kurdish
Language
Language Family
Last Name
Latin
Latin Alphabet

Latvian
Linguistics
Literature
Lithuanian
Loanword
Logogram
Low German
Luganda
Luhya
Luo

M, N, O

Maasai
Macedonian
Made-up Names
Malay
Malayalam
Mandarin
Manx
Maori
Mapuche
Marathi
Matronym
Maya
Maya Hieroglyphics
Middle English
Middle Name
Modern Greek Names
Mongolian
Mongolian Languages
Muskogean Language Family

Muslim Names
Mwera
Mythology
Na-Den� Language Family
Nahuatl
Name
Names
Namesake
Names on the Internet
Name Day
Name Days
Name Element
Name Laws
Name Meaning
Native American Languages
Navajo
Ndebele
Nepali
New Testament

Nickname
Niger-Congo Language Family
Nilo-Saharan Language Family
Nomen
Normans
Norwegian
Numerology
Nuu-chah-nulth
Ojibwa
Old English
Old French
Old High German
Old Norse
Old Persian
Old Testament
Onomastics
Oromo
Oto-Manguean Language Family

P, Q, R

Pashto
Patronym
Pen Name
Persian
Persian Names
Personal Name
Pet Form
Pet Name
Phoenician
Phoenician Alphabet
Phrygian

Place Name
Polish
Polish Names
Polynesian Languages
Portuguese
Portuguese Names
Praenomen
Proper Name
Proven�al
Pseudonym
Punjabi

Puritan Names
Quechua
Quenya
Romance Languages
Romanian
Roman Names
Runic Alphabet
Russian
Russian Names

S, T, U

Sabaean
Saint
Sanskrit
Scandinavian Languages
Scandinavian Names
Scottish
Scottish Names
Script
Semitic Languages
Serbian
Sesotho
Shakespeare
Shakespearian Names
Shawnee
Shona
Short Form
Shoshone
Sikh Names
Sindarin
Sino-Tibetan Language Family
Siouan Language Family
Slavic Languages
Slavic Names

Slovak
Slovak Names
Slovene
Somali
Spanish
Spanish Names
Stage Name
Sumerian
Sundanese
Surname
Swahili
Swedish
Syllabary
Tagalog
Ta�no
Tamil
Tamil Alphabet
Telugu
Telugu Alphabet
Thai
Thai Alphabet
Thracian
Tibetan

Tibetan Alphabet
Title
Tiv
Tolkien
Toponym
Transcription
Transliteration
Transparent Meaning
Tswana
Tumbuka
Tungusic Languages
Tup�
Turkic Languages
Turkish
Turkish Names
Ugaritic
Ukrainian
Uralic Language Family
Urdu
Usual Name
Uto-Aztecan Language Family
Uzbek

V, W, X, Y, Z

Variant
Vernacular
Vietnamese
Vocabulary
Vulgar Latin
Wakashan Language Family

Welsh
Welsh Names
Writing System
Wu
Xhosa
Yao

Yiddish
Yoruba
Zapotec
Zarma
Zulu

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