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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 1 / 2009  
         
  Article:   LES NOMS DE LOCALITÉS DU PAYS DE HAŢEG ET L’INFLUENCE SLAVE / PLACE NAMES IN HATEG COUNTY AND THE SLAVIC INFLUENCE.

Authors:  ADRIAN CHIRCU. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  This study sets out to closely examine the way in which the Slavic influence is mirrored in toponymy in Haţeg County, or, more precisely, the way in which Slavic elements are to be found at the root of place names in that region. At a first glance, one might be tempted to conclude that the naming of habitations was entirely the making of Slavic peoples. In our opinion, however, it was the Romanians who did the naming; only they resorted to Slavic elements when doing so. They seem to have borrowed common nouns and, less frequently, proper names too, which they later incorporated in certain place-names, taking into account the peculiar geographical position of those places. Habitations usually took on proper names that were actually the landowners’

Keywords: Slavic influence, Haţeg county, toponymy, naming of habitation, contacts linguistics 		 
         
     
         
         
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