Abstract

The article is an analysis of hydronyms from Ocna Șugatag, Maramureș county and it represents a part of a larger research on Maramuseș toponymy. Settled on a hilly area, at the foot of Gutîi mountains, on Mara river, the boundaries of the four localities belonging to the commune: Breb, Hoteni, Sat-Șugatag and Ocna Șugatag are characterized by a vast hydronymic net, with valleys and springs, affluents of Mara river, but also wells, lakes and swamps. The corpus of the work has been extracted from inedit toponymic material collected during field researches. The topic names are individually discussed, for each hydronym the answers given by the subject have been indicated, and also different forms, when registered, and supplementary data known to us, as Ocna Șugatag is our native place. The purpose of the study is to establish the etymology of hydronyms in the researched area. In order to provide a broad perspective on the hydronymy and the anthroponymy which represents its basis, we also indicate the distribution of topic names in Transylvania and the frequency of surnames in the county. After the analysis of toponyms referring to waters, they are classified from the structural point of view in order to illustrate the identified syntactical and morphological patterns. Our conclusion is that the hydronyms in Ocna Șugatag, Maramureș county reflect property relationships and geomorphological and geological features of the area.

Highlights

  • Having a greater stability than appelatives or anthroponyms, the toponyms, especially hydronyms “se păstrează deseori cu o mare tenacitate, chiar și la schimbarea populației” [preserve themselves, sometimes tenaciously, even during population shifts] (Frățilă, 2002, p. 72)

  • The name of waters or mountains are considered to be prior to other topic names, but there are situations when this principle does not function, especially for water names based on an anthroponym (Bolocan, 1975, p. 383)

  • The corpus the work is based upon has been extracted from the toponymic material collected during direct field research1, not published and it represents a part of a larger research on Maramuseș toponymy

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Summary

Introduction

Having a greater stability than appelatives or anthroponyms, the toponyms, especially hydronyms “se păstrează deseori cu o mare tenacitate, chiar și la schimbarea populației” [preserve themselves, sometimes tenaciously, even during population shifts] (Frățilă, 2002, p. 72). The study’s purpose is to analyse the toponyms which denominate waters (rivers, valleys, springs, lakes, swamps) in our native commune, Ocna Șugatag, Maramureș county. Ocna Șugatag commune is placed in Maramureșului Depression, on the interfluve between Mara and Cosău rivers, at the eastern foot of Gutîi Mountains, in the northern part of Maramureș county. It administrates the following localities: Ocna Șugatag (centre of the commune), Breb, Hoteni and SatȘugatag. Borca Ioan, 71 years old, miner, Breb; V. Tătar Gheorghe, 57 years old, miner, Ocna Șugatag. The locality Sat-Șugatag (Zalatyna, villa olachalis Sugatag-falva, Swgathakfalwa) was attested in 1360; its previous names The name Bréb has been registered in documents beginning with 1715 and it is based on the appellative breb ‘beaver’

Topic names denominating waters
Topic names denominating rivers
Topic names denominatig valleys
Topic names denominating wells and springs
Topic names denominating stagnant waters
Linguistic appreciations
Conclusions
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