Egy XIII. századi remetekápolna – Idegsÿt Beatae Elizabeth –lokalizálása : Nyelvészeti vizsgálatok a séd és kút szavak körében = The localization of a 13th-century chapel of hermits: Idegsÿt Beatae Elizabeth : An analysis of séd ‘creek’ and kút ‘spring, well’

Holler, László (2009) Egy XIII. századi remetekápolna – Idegsÿt Beatae Elizabeth –lokalizálása : Nyelvészeti vizsgálatok a séd és kút szavak körében = The localization of a 13th-century chapel of hermits: Idegsÿt Beatae Elizabeth : An analysis of séd ‘creek’ and kút ‘spring, well’. MAGYAR NYELV, 105 (1). pp. 17-29. ISSN 0025-0228 (nyomtatott), 1588-1210 (online)

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Abstract

The subject-matter of the present paper is the localization of a hermits’ chapel mentioned as Idegsÿt Beatae Elizabeth in a diploma issued by Paul, bishop of Veszprém in the year 1263. The author concludes that it must have been located in the area of the present-day village Hidegkút in Veszprém County. Besides some archaeological and topographical arguments, the identification rests mainly on a linguistic analysis of the place names Hidegséd and Hidegkút. The author lists several examples for the word séd ‘creek’. The names of three different settlements appear in the forms Hidegséd, Hidegseg and Hidegkút in the 13th to 16th centuries. Both present-day kút ‘well’ and old Hungarian seg possessed the meaning ‘spring’ formerly. This last observation disproves the 140-year-old idea, repeatedly emphasised in the literature, that all Hidegség place names originate from Hidegséd as the result of a folk-etymological process. The author’s conclusion is that settlements located near a cold-water creek may have been named after either the creek or its source, yielding name forms like Hidegséd, Hidegseg or Hidegkút.

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