What to read after The Reference Dictionary of Ukrainian Names?

With the Russian invasion of Ukraine underway, Mondonomo has published a special dictionary edition devoted to the Ukrainian given names, their transliteration and etymology. The work can be considered as the very first Reference Dictionary of Ukrainian Names. Written by leading figures in the field including translatology and onomastics, this is the definitive scholarly reference for a new generation of Ukraine-centred researchers and amateurs. This dictionary is a celebration of Ukraine’s rich cultural heritage bringing to light the country’s most important names from prehistory to the present. It chronicles the naming patterns within Ukraine at a time when the country’s people, culture, and language are facing destruction and devastation. This move comes out of solidarity with the people of Ukraine.

The dictionary, being the first attempt in the Ukrainian-English language pair, represents a milestone development in the combined interdisciplinary fields of comparative name research, translation studies, sociology, history and some other disciplines. The authors present a work, which is engaging and rich in its reach across the said domains. It has been built on the rich heritage of the preceding Ukrainian authors who have published the relevant dictionaries of Ukrainian names that used to be mostly unavailable to the general English-speaking public because of their insufficient visibility and the language barrier. Thus, one of the main aims of the Dictionary is to expand the current framework, to bring Ukrainian and English names into dialogue, to demonstrate the intersections between them, and to contribute to the understanding of how the fascinating national patterns merge in the process of the global world view development.