VIETNAMNATIONAL UNIVERSITY HANOI INSTITUTE OF VIETNAMESE STUDIES AND DEVELOPMENT SCIENCE NGUYEN THI SUOI LINH THE PLACE – NAMES OF DONG ANH MASTER THESIS ON VIETNAMESE STUDIES Major: VIETNAMESE STUDIES HANOI – 2012 1 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com VIETNAMNATIONAL UNIVERSITY HANOI INSTITUTE OF VIETNAMESE STUDIES AND DEVELOPMENT SCIENCE NGUYEN THI SUOI LINH THE PLACE – NAMES OF DONG ANH MASTER THESIS ON VIETNAMESE STUDIES Major: Vietnamese study Code: 60 31 60 Supervisor: Associate Professor Nguyen Thi Viet Thanh HANOI – 2012 2 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com COMMITMENT I hereby commit that all information and detail in this investigation is real, honest, and done by me under guidance from Assoc.Nguyen Thi Viet Thanh. Every references from this thesis is clearly identified. Author Nguyen Thi Suoi Linh 3 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This thesis is a research base on long time of studying in Institute of Vietnamese studies and development sciences – Vietnam, International University of Hanoi and self investigation process. With warmest attitude, author would like to express deepest appreciation to all instructors, teachers who are currently teaching at institute of Vietnamese studies, leader of institute, training bureau… for the continuous and unconditional support during studying process to the author when working with this thesis.
Especially, I would like to show my sincere gratitude to Assoc.Nguyen Thi Viet Thanh for her persistent guidance, valuable time and direction to us. During her guidance, author also gain much more than before about her profession planning and serious attitude in study… Once again, thank you! Beside, to accomplished this thesis, author would like to thank local government and people in Dong Anh district to supply many valuable information. Best regard to all! Ha noi, 22/10/ 2012 Author 4 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com TABLE OF CONTENTS INTROUDUCTION……………………………………………………………. Reason for choosing the theme.
Purpose of research. Object and scope of research. History of research………………………………………………. Contributions of the thesis.
15 CHATER 1: GENERAL ISSUES OF PLACE-NAME AND THE PLACE-NAMES OF DONG ANH. General theories of place-name. Some features about place-name identification. Place-name classification.
Overview of research area. Principles of surveying, classifying the place-names of Dong anh. Principle of surveying. Principles of classifying the place-names of Dong Anh.
General picture of the place-names of Dong Anh .29 CHAPTER 2: CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PLACE-NAMES OF DONG ANH. Characteristic of language origin .Place-names with pure Vietnamese origin .Group of Sino-Vietnamese origin place-names. Group of foreign language origin place-names. Group of number place-names .38 5 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.
Group of undefined origin place-names. Composition characteristics of place-names of Dong Anh. Overview of place-name complex. Place-name complex model of Dong Anh.
Meaning characteristic of place-names of Dong Anh. Identification methods of place-names of Dong Anh .67 CHAPTER 3: PLACE NAMES IN DONG ANH IN RELATIONSHIP WITH HISTORY AND CULTURE. Place – name – key for explaining the historical and cultural issues. Historical hallmark in Dong Anh place-names.
Dong Anh - an ancient land region .The place–names of Dong Anh are is evidence of historical ages. Process of changing Dong Anh place-names reflecting the step of history. Place-names carrying name of person or name of historical event, historical place-name. Cultural features of Dong Anh place-name.
Cultural-geological issue. Aspects of cultural life presented through place-names. 123 6 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com THE ABBREVIATED NOTATION TTĐA: Đông Anh Town NK: Nguyên Khê BH: Bắc Hồng UN: Uy nỗ DT: Dục Tú TX: Tầm Xá CL: Cổ Loa TD: Tiên Dương ĐM: Đại Mạch TL: Thụy Lâm ĐH: Đông Hội V Hà: Vân Hà HB: Hải Bối V Nội: Vân Nội KC: Kim Chung V Ngọc: Vĩnh Ngọc KN: Kim Nỗ V Hùng: Việt Hùng LH: Liên Hà VL: Võng La ML: Mai Lâm XC: Xuân Canh NH: Nam Hồng XN: Xuân Nộn 7 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com LIST OF TABLES Table 1. Result of place-name classification according to the administrative – non-administrative and natural– non-natural criteria Table 1.
Summary table of system of natural place-names of Dong Anh district Table 2.1: Classification result of place-names of Dong Anh according to the language origin criteria Table 2. Statistics of quantity of elements in the place-name complex composition of Dong Anh – group of non-administrative place-names Table 2. Statistic result of quantity of syllables in the common component composition of group of non-administrative place-names of Dong Anh Table 2. Survey result of place-names of Dong Anh according to the structure type 8 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.
Reason for choosing the theme 1. According to the common way of understanding, the place-name is the name of natural topography, construction works, administrative units, territories, object of concern of many fields of science such as history, geography, ethnology, cultural studies 1. Learning about the place-name is the topic segment that is concerned by many researchers, not only linguists. The place-name is not only the name of a specific object but also the historical, cultural sediments, factors belonging to the lifestyle, customs and habits of each region, smaller it is each district, each commune, even each hamlet, each village.
The formation, development, existence or change and loss in which a place- name often attaches to a cultural reason or certain historical event. Therefore, the research on place-name not only has linguistic significance but also brings about abundant data sources with reliable scientific foundation to many other branches of science. Dong Anh is a suburb district in the northeast of Hanoi city. The whole district has an area, including 1 townlet and 23 communes.
The inhabitants here are relatively homogeneous about the ethnic component. It may be said that, the villages and communes in Dong Anh are quite typical for the traditional village and commune model of the Vietnamese in the Northern part about the organizational structure, production mode, social institution as well as many other aspects of the material and spiritual cultural life, including language. This is also the ancient land region with age- old history, famous with Co Loa relic area and related cultural micro-systems. The general research of Dong Anh place-name will bring about the scientific values of language, history, culture in the locality in particular and of Hanoi in general.
With desire to learn about relatively completely and systematically the place- names in Dong Anh district according to the interdisciplinary research method to show their characteristics, formation model, development, transformation law as well as crystallized historical, cultural values after each name of village, commune, pagoda, 9 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com mountain and river, road, market …we have chosen the theme “The place – names of Dong Anh” for our doctorial thesis. Purpose of research - Research the pace-name in Dong Anh in the aspects: composition characteristics, identification method, semantic characteristics, original characteristics and transformation of place-name. - Clarify the relationship between place-name and related fields such as: history, geography, ethnicity, culture, popular legend. - Through the relationship between place-name and related non-language factors, the thesis aims to discover, affirm the historical and cultural values on Dong Anh land.
Research tasks The thesis performs the following tasks: - Study the theoretical issues of place-name related to the research process. - Countryside, survey the reality of place-name system in Dong Anh. - Statistics, describe and analyze the data to draw the comments on composition, identification method, language origin and meaning of factors that constitute Dong Anh place-name. - From the place-name linguistic data source, decode the issues of geography, history, culture.
Object and scope of research 4. Object of research - The object of research of the thesis is the natural and human, administrative and non-administrative place-names in Dong Anh district, including the names that are in use at present or existed in the past. Scope of study - The scope of research of the thesis is the place-name in the whole district, including 23 communes and 1 townlet. However, because the number of place-names is too large, we only research over 1288 place-names collected by the thesis.
History of research issue 10 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com As a real science subject, Vietnamese toponymy was formed and developed for a short time (about in the middle of the 20th century). In the world, the toponymy has a longer history attaching with the name of the first toponymists such as J.Nagl at the end of the 19th century … However, the notes of geographical, historical place-name in both Orient and in the West appeared from very soon. - In China, at the beginning of Eastern Han Dynasty, Ban Co documented more than 4,000 place-names. By the time Northern Wei, Lich Dao Nguyen wrote “Thuy kinh chu so”, in which noted more than three thousand place-names.
- At the end of the 19th century, in the West, the toponymy subject was officially appeared. Eghi (Switzerland) wrote Toponymy and in 1903, J.Nagl (Austrian) also made the work Toponymy. In the 20th century, flourished the researches on place-name attaching to the great names from many countries.Gillénon (1854 - 1926) wrote Atlat French language, research the place-name in the direction of geography development.Dauzat wrote Origin and development of place-name propose the geographical methods to study the chronology of the place-names. Leading and reaching many achievements in building theoretical system is the Soviet toponymists with some typical works such as E.Murzaev with The tendencies of researching place-names, I.Kapenko Discussing contemporary place-names, A.Nhikonov with General of place-names (1965); G.
Gorbanhexki with Moscow place-names etc. The person who is considered to have most contributions to the toponymy research science is A. Supenranxkaja with 2 great works named Principles of toponymy and What is toponymyịa. In which, including the work What is toponymy has great value in the development of toponymy branch.
Situation of place-name research in Vietnam The chronicle works, history of literature, geography books appearing a lot of centuries ago may be considered as the first toponymy works in our country. We may tell the name of typical works in this genre such as: Vietnamese historical summary, Vietnam Records of the Historian (Ngo Si Lien), General history summary of Vietnam, 11 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com An Nam miscellaneous literary works, Geography book (Nguyen Trai), Lich trieu hien chuong loai chi (Phan Huy Chu)…. From the middle of the 20th century, some works researched place-names in the angle of language or place-name approach in interdisciplinary science type, bring the Toponymy of Vietnam into a real science subject. Starting from the years of 70th decade – previous century, the issues of place-name research and theory of toponymy were taken true interest.
We may quote the typical works as follows: - “Relation of ancient language in Southeast Asia through some names of river” (1967) by Hoang Thi Chau. - “Changes in administrative geography in the French domination period” (1972) by Vu Van Tinh - “Method of applying toponymy in research of geography, ancient history of Vietnam” (1984) by Dinh Van Nhat - “Test discussion about Vietnam place-names” (1976) by Tran Thanh Tam The research of modern toponymy must mention to Le Trung Hoa, author of the successful research work on place-names of Ho Chi Minh city and a series of other valuable researches around the field of Toponymy. In addition, it is necessary to mention to the contribution of Nguyen Kien Truong with MA thesis in Survey place- names in Hai Phong city; Tu Thu Mai with thesis “Research place-names in Quang Tri”; Tran Van Dung researched “Place-names in Dac Lac”; Phan Xuan Dam with thesis “Survey place-names in Nghe An” and many thesises, themes of place-names in other localities.