Denotate and the Principles of Categorization of Proper Nouns

Abstract

While the naming distinguishing of the subject or event is done by a sign and this is the sign, which is the basis for the naming (Gamkrelidze). All lexical units, either public names or private names, are the signs of a language and, therefore, mention something. The public name usually lacks individual value, while the personal name usually has no general meaning (Tskhadaia).

Personal name distinguishes the unique out from the similar and contradicts it to all the rest. A characteristic of a personal name is only the feature of separation, division (Jorbenadze). Three components are participating in any titling of a personal name: nominator, denotatum, or nominator’s object and titling (Tskhadaia).

According to the definitions accepted in Georgian linguistics the geographical side of the denotate is raised in the foreground in toponymy; accordingly, physical or other types of features, while under the German explanation, together with a Physical and geographical characteristics, is explained the linguistic aspect of Denotate.

It is noteworthy that while the definition of the term Denotate, there is a different situation in the toponym of Georgian and German languages, even in the case of intangible denotation. It turned out that in Georgian toponymism, the notion of Intangible is not fixed, and therefore is not classified as the terms that denote intangible.

There is a notion of intangible denotate in German toponymy and therefore the terms used to describe it: Mythonyme (Greek. mythos 'Mythos, Märchen Rairyი' + - onym Name), Theonyme (Greek. theos 'Gott God' +-onym Name), and Poetonyme or Onomapoetika (die EN in der Literatur Personal name in literature). Obviously, this terminology exists in Georgian Onomasticity, although it is not classified as the term denoting Intangible Denotate, that's what we think should be related to a different way of understanding.