Reference material
The buttons below will take you to to useful reference material: abbreviations commonly used in name-studies, a glossary of specialist terminology used in name-studies and suggestions for reading about names of all kinds.
Abbreviations
A selection of abbreviations that are commonly found in works on place and personal names
Glossary
Need to know what a term means? Have a look in the glossary
Reading suggestions
We’ve compiled a large list of reading suggestions as starting points to exploring names