Antedating of "Onomastics"

[Fred Shapiro]

The following antedates the OED's 1936 first use for "onomastics":

1927 _American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures_ 44: 35
We must, therefore, speak of proto-Aramean names when we refer to the
onomastics of the second millennium B.C.


Fred Shapiro


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