László Rásonyi[1], Imre Baski
Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, Indiana University, 2007 - 984 pages
The Onomasticon Turcicum presents an enormous collection of scholarship conducted by the renowned Hungarian Turkologist László Rásonyi. It contains a massive collection of over 50,000 anthroponyms, or personal names, collected by Rásonyi, and extensively analyzed and categorized by himself and fellow Turkic philologist Imre Baski, who completed the work after Rásonyi's death. The book begins with an extensive introduction by Baski which gives a comprehensive historiography of Turkic onomastics, as well as a description of Rásonyi's work which culminated in the Onomasticon Turcicum. The bulk of the work contains an exhaustive categorization system which divides the names into three primary groups: commemorative names, desiderate or intentional names, and fortuitous names, which are then further divided into more specific groups. The Onomasticon Turcicum is an invaluable resource for all those who seek to better understand Turkic languages and cultures.
[1] László Rásonyi (b. 22 January 1899, Lipton Szent Miklos - d. 4 May 1984, Budapest, Hungary),was an eminent Hungarian Turkologist and scholar of Hungarian Studies who worked for the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the University of Ankara. He specialized in the study of Hungarian and Turkish names, the history of Turkic peoples, and Hungarian history and prehistory. Imre Baski is an emeritus professor of the Department of Turkic Studies at Eötvös Loránd University. A specialist in Turkic philology, he served as a senior research fellow at the Research Center for Central Asian Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences until 2012.
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Volume 172 of Indiana University Uralic and Altaic series, ISSN 0445-8486
Volume 172, Issue 1 of Onomasticon Turcicum, László Rásonyi
Volume 172 of Uralic and Altaic series
Authors László Rásonyi, Imre Baski
Publisher Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, Indiana University, 2007
ISBN 093307056X, 9780933070561
The Madjars or Madi-yar people are a Turkic ethnic group in Kazakhstan. They number about 1,000–2,000 and live mostly in the Kostanay Region.
Turkologist scholar Dr. Imre Baski claims that the ethnonym Madjar means 'faithful Muslim', literally 'friend or follower of Muhammad', ultimately from Muhammad-i-yar.
"Madi-yar that proved to be a compound anthroponym (Madi[y]-yar) of Arabic-Persian origin. The paper also provides the explanation of the anthroponyms Aldi-yar (’Allah’s friend/follower’) and Ḫudi-yar (’God’s friend/follower’), the “relatives” of Madi(y)-yar (’Muhammad’s friend/follower’)".
The Madjars have sometimes been linked onomastically to the Magyars (Hungarians); proponents of this view include supporters of "Hungarian Turanism", such as András Zsolt Bíró, who noticed the high frequency of Y-DNA Haplogroup G-M201 among Madiyars and the presence of Haplogroup G amongst Hungarians. However, it is not supported by any strong material evidence. In fact, haplogroup G is rare in Hungary (at a rate around 3%) and has much higher rates in parts of Western and Southern Europe (e.g. Italy and France). Southern German populations also have a higher rate of Haplogroup G than the Hungarian population.[citation needed] Furthermore, Turkologist Imre Baski concluded that the Kazakh clan name Madi-yar "cannot possibly be linked to the Magyar ethnonym and thus cannot serve as proof for a relationship between Madiyar and Magyar."
