NOMINA 28 (2005)

CONTENTS

The kinship of Jack: II, pet-forms of Middle English personal names with the suffixes -cok and -cus Peter McClure

The rise of Christian names in the thirteenth century: a case study of the English nobility David Morris

The transition from patronymic names to settled surnames in Wales John and Sheila Rowlands

‘Lochy’ names and Adomnán’s Nigra Dea Jacob King

Summer landscapes: investigating Scottish topographical place-names Stella Pratt

Modern methods and a controversial surname: Plant John S. Plant

Review article: Kristensson, A Survey of Middle English Dialects 1290–1350. The Southern Counties I and II Peter Kitson

Conference Report: Swansea 2005

REVIEWS

Cox, The Gaelic Place-Names of Carloway, Isle of Lewis. Their Structure and Significance (Broun)

Svenskt ortnamns-lexikon, ed. Wahlberg (Waugh)

Saints of Europe. Studies towards a Survey of Cults and Culture, ed. Jones (Riches)

Saarelma-Maunumaa, Edhina Ekogidho—Names as Links: The Encounter between African and European Anthroponymic Systems among the Ambo People in Namibia (Coates)

McCall Smith, Portuguese Irregular Verbs; At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances; The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs (Higham)

OTHER

Bibliography for 2004 Carole Hough

Notices:
English Place-Name Society
Essay Prize
Scottish Place-Name Society
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