Palimpsest Rules Letter dated 2023-07-16
SENA GP2B states "When the evidence is equivocal, such as when there is limited reliable dated information about a specific culture, in general the submitter should be given the benefit of the doubt." In April 2023 Pelican registered the alternate name Hüüpiäinen Unnikki to Birittha Wf. The name was reconstructed and transcribed, based on a scholarly standard, using North Finnic elements that predate the written daughter languages Finnish and Karelian. On the same letter, Pelican registered Dzovinar Korikoslian, where the given name was from Armenian oral traditions that scholars note had been widely known in the 16th century.
This Rules Letter proposes updates SENA to provide guidance to future submitters who wish to register names based on oral tradition or elements that pre-date written languages.
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1: PN1B2a - Attested Name Phrases - New Rule Change OSCAR is unable to find the name, either registered or submitted. This proposes adding oral tradition as a source of attested name phrases. Only the insert/delete version of the proposed wording is shown as no text is being deleted. Current Wording a. Attested Name Phrases: Name phrases may be attested to period as a complete name phrase (i.e., found in a period document). A single example of an attested name phrase clearly dated to period is sufficient to demonstrate its use. Minor spelling variants are allowed when those spelling variants are demonstrated to be compatible with the spelling conventions of the time and place of the attested name. The example is unchanged Proposed Wording a. Attested Name Phrases: Name phrases may be attested to period as a complete name phrase (i.e., found in a period document). A single example of an attested name phrase clearly dated to period is sufficient to demonstrate its use. Minor spelling variants are allowed when those spelling variants are demonstrated to be compatible with the spelling conventions of the time and place of the attested name. A name phrase attested through oral tradition is registrable (though not necessarily authentic) when scholarly sources consider the name phrase to have been known in period. The example is unchanged |
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2: PN1B2b Constructed Name Phrases - New Rule Change OSCAR is unable to find the name, either registered or submitted. This proposes adding reconstruction of a name phrase based on pre-written language as a method of constructing a name phrase. Only the insert/delete version of the proposed wording is shown as no text is being deleted. This is a new section under PN1B2b. Proposed Wording 5. Constructed From Elements That Predate Written Languages: Name phrases reconstructed from pre-written languages are registrable when they are based on scholarly research and use a standard transcription system. For example, the Late Proto-Finnic (pre-cursor to Finnish, Karelian, and Veps languages) patronym Hüüpiäinen can be constructed from the byname hüüpi- (referring to the Eurasian eagle owl (Bubo bubo) found in the Finnic Etymology Database and the suffix -inen. |
Jeanne Marie
Palimpsest