The last chapters conduct us with modesty and authority into the worlds of archaeology, onomastics , and (mythical) topography.

It then proceeds through phonology (five pages), morphology (forty pages) and syntax (eight pages), and concludes with comments on vocabulary and onomastics and on three characteristics of Ugaritic poetic language.

The main objection is that the scribe would either have to have known the Iranian language to some extent, which is not very likely, or have been a specialist in onomastics , which again is not credible.

These are not so much a problem for the study of onomastics as is another small body of names that seem Semitic or even Hebrew and for which an etymology can be proposed, but that are not transparent.

The volume next turns to more synthetic essays in the area of economy, society, onomastics , iconography, religion, and political history.

Rutgers enters the minefield of onomastics with a sure step and shows that, in fact, no discernible patterns can be found regarding the popularity of Latin, Greek, and Semitic names.

But, the aphaeresis of l < l is so rare in South-Arabian onomastics (but normal in North-Arabian) that it cannot be invoked unless as a last resort.

While the medieval Muslims themselves discussed quite consciously and extensively their onomastic systems, and while much modem European scholarship (like the fundamental work of Caetani and Gabrieli) has both surveyed and deepened the traditional understanding of Islamic onomastics , little of this material is in English.

The introduction gives basic information about language, onomastics , paleography, iconography (and the Deir Alla Plaster texts, which are not included in this corpus).

Mr Ogot argues that the Luo baptismal language of the world is exclusive scholastic basis for universal study of onomastics (study of the history and origin of proper names, especially personal names) and philosophy owing to its special capacity to decode meanings of all proper nouns and names comprehensively.

Estonian onomastics has only used the term siirdnimi 'transferred name' for the names, especially place names, which have been taken along away from their original locations, mostly due to migration (see, e.g., Kallasmaa 1996; Pall 1977; for more specifics about name transfer in Estonian toponymy, see Laansalu 2018).