Marie-Thérèse Morlet ( Guise,

Aisne Aisne ( , ; ; ) is a French departments of France, department in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France. It is named after the river Aisne (river), Aisne. In 2020, it had a population of 529,374. Geography The department borders No ...

, November 18, 1913 - July 9, 2005) was a French scholar (specialist in

onomastics Onomastics (or onomatology in older texts) is the study of proper names, including their etymology, history, and use. An ''alethonym'' ('true name') or an ''orthonym'' ('real name') is the proper name of the object in question, the object of onom ...

) and honorary director of research at

CNRS The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 eng ...

. Her publications include ''Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de famille'' (''Etymological Dictionary of Family Names'').

Les noms de personne sur le territoire de l'ancienne Gaule du VIe au XIIe siècle

Her book ''Les noms de personne sur le territoire de l'ancienne Gaule du VIe au XIIe siècle'' (''Personal Names in the Territory of the former Gaul from the 4th to the 13th Century'', abbreviated NPAG) is an

anthroponym Anthroponymy (also anthroponymics or anthroponomastics, from Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος ''anthrōpos'', 'human', and ὄνομα ''onoma'', 'name') is the study of ''anthroponyms'', the proper names of human beings, both individual and coll ...

ical

dictionary A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged Alphabetical order, alphabetically (or by Semitic root, consonantal root for Semitic languages or radical-and-stroke sorting, radical an ...

covering the evolution of names in

France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...

up to the

Middle Ages In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, similarly to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and ...

. The work is published by the

, structured as a series of alphabetical lists and made up of three volumes. The title of the third volume is slightly different: ''Les noms de personne sur le territoire de l'ancienne Gaule'' (Personal Names in the Territory of the former Gaul).

Structure

*The Personal Names Of The Ancient Territory of

Gaul Gaul () was a region of Western Europe first clearly described by the Roman people, Romans, encompassing present-day France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts of Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, and Northern Italy. It covered an area of . Ac ...

Between The 4th And The 12th Century. - I. - Names from continental Germanic languages and Gallo-Germanic creations. 237 pages - published in 1971 with ''permission with photomechanic copying of this text with this publish edition in 1968'', (no ISBN). **The first volume contains almost exclusively an alphabetical list of names originating as indicated by the subtitle of the volume. *The Personal Names Of The Ancient territory Of Gaul III - The personal names containing with the local names. 563 pages - published in 1985. . **The second volume contains an alphabetical list of names originating as indicated by the subtitle of the volume: *Volume 3 subtitled ''Personal Names Contained in place names'' contains: **First part: Latin Names transmitted via Latin: Alphabetical lexicon indicating associated place names for each anthroponym; **Second part: ''Personal names derived from continental Germanic'': Alphabetical lexicon indicating associated place names for each anthroponym. **A general index with alphabetical list of place names (pages 505 - 540)

NPAG and the toponym

The three volumes of NPAG are referenced in the works of Ernest Nègre '' Toponymie générale de la France'' (volume 1, 1990). The geographical study corresponds to modern France with the work of Ernest Nègre on ancient Gaul with publications by Marie-Thérèse Morlet. A number of personal names is preceded in NPAG with an asterisk ( *). One example are the forms ending with '' -acum'', the name forms with a proprietary name, one example includes the name *''Stirpius'' (derived from *''Stirpiacum'' in which is the etymology of Étréchy) with the explication: The name f a personcomes from ''stirps'', souche in French; from E. Nègre ( TGF § 6359).

Works

* ''Toponymie de la

Thiérache The Thiérache (; Picard: ''Quiérache'') is a region of France and Belgium united by similar geography and architecture, including the presence of hedgerows, grassland, hilly terrain, scattered settlements, and traditionally-built stone or brick ...

'' (''Toponym of Thiérarche''), Artrey, Paris, 1957, 137 p. as d'ISBN* ''Étude d'anthroponymie picarde : les noms de personne en Haute Picardie aux XIIIe, XIVe, XVe siècles'' ''Picard Anthroponymy Studies: Place Names in Lower

Picardy Picardy (; Picard language, Picard and , , ) is a historical and cultural territory and a former regions of France, administrative region located in northern France. The first mentions of this province date back to the Middle Ages: it gained it ...

in the 12th, 13th and the 14th Centuries'', 468 pages, la Société de linguistique picarde (Picard Linguistics Society) edition, edited for the Musée de Picardie, Amiens, 1967, pas d'ISBN * ''Le vocabulaire de la Champagne septentrionale au Moyen âge : essai d'inventaire méthodique'', Klincksieck, Paris, 1969, 429 p. o ISBN* '' Les noms de personne sur le territoire de l'ancienne Gaule du VIe au XIIe siècle'', 1971, 1973 et 1985 * ''Les Études d'onomastique en France : de 1938 à 1970'' (''The Onomastic Studies In France: From 1938 To 1970''), Société d'études linguistiques et anthropologiques de France, Paris, 1981, 214 * ''Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de famille'' (''Etymological Dictionary Of Family Names''), 1st edition: Perrin, Paris, 1991, p. 983

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Morlet, Marie-Therese French science writers 20th-century French non-fiction writers Women science writers 20th-century French women writers 1913 births 2005 deaths Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research