Cemeteries are not only an important part of historical and cultural heritage of every country or community, but they also represent a relatively frequent naming motive in toponymy. The paper presents results of a lexical-semantical and motivational analysis of 1,407 anoikonyms from the area of Bohemia which originate in the Czech appellative hřbitov ‘cemetery’, its dialectal variant krchov (with modifications krychov, kerchov, krchou) or other words meaning ‘an area of ground in which dead bodies are buried’, such as boží pole, svaté pole or pohřebiště. The names mostly denote fields and other pieces of land motivated by their location in the vicinity of a cemetery. They have been motivated by various types of cemeteries, according to their purpose or religion of the community. The vast majority of the anoikonyms originate in the appellative hřbitov (or its modifications hřbítov, řbitov, břítov). In this group, the prepositional names, such as Za hřbitovem ‘Behind the cemetery’, prevail. These names are usually relatively young, many of them originating in the 20th century. Some of them have replaced older names containing the word krchov, because this dialectal word gradually went out of use, became less known and started to be considered pejorative.

Apelativum hřbitov a jeho nářeční varianty v pomístních jménech v Čechách

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