Lucia Nistor, Geografie der Familiennamen Sass / Saß und ihrer Entsprechungen in Deutschland und in Rumänien
Geography of the Family Name Sass/Saß and of its Correspondents in Germany and Romania
The purpose of the present paper is to demonstrate, based on a special digital program containing the lists of telephoniccustomers from 2005 in Germany, that the family names and ethnonyms Sass/Saß in German, the Romanian Sas, Sas(s)u,Sascu, the Hungarian S(z)asz, whose origin is first of all the name of the old tribe of Northern Saxons (Nieder)sachsen(oldGerman sahso, middle German sachse, northern German sasse), based on this, the German colonists who came in Transylvaniain the 12thcentury were called in Latin Saxones, in German Siebenbürger Sachsen, in Romanian saşi, their geographic spreadingin Germany is different due to the fact that, in the case of names such as Sass/Saß, we can speak about indigenous names,formed on the territory of Germany, especially in northern lands Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein (seeMap 1), while in the second case, we are dealing with names having a foreign origin (Romanian or Hungarian) that appearedin Transylvania and then reached Germany due to the phenomenon of migration from east to west, specific to the 20thand the 21stcenturies for political-economic reasons (spreading in the richly industrialized lands of Bavaria,Baden-Württemberg, Rheinland-Pfalz, Hessen and Nordrhein-Westfalen (see Map 2).
Keywords: digital onomastic geography; compared onomatology; family names; ethnonyms Sass/Saß in German, Romanian andHungarian.
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