onomastics

Etymology
1936, from the adjective (1716) with a suffix, from , from , from , form of , from , from  (whence 🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 1) The branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names and naming, especially the origins of names.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: onomatologie, naamkunde, onomastiek
 * Armenian: հատկանվանաբանություն
 * Basque: onomastika
 * Belarusian: анама́стыка
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 專名學
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: naamkunde, onomastiek
 * Esperanto: onomastiko, nomscienco
 * Faroese: navnafrøði, fólkanavnafrøði
 * Finnish: nimistöntutkimus
 * French:
 * Galician: onomástica
 * German:, , Onomatologie, , ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: nafnfræði
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 固有名詞学
 * Korean:
 * Macedonian: ономатологија, ономастика
 * Malay: onomastik
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: нэрзүй
 * Mongolian: ᠨᠡᠷ᠎ᠡ ᠵᠦᠢ
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, onomatologie
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: имено̀сло̄вље, онома̀стика
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovene: imenoslovje,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Ukrainian: онома́стика
 * Yiddish: אָנאָמאַסטיק