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Predoslje and Prelosno (forty-five years later)
Jezikoslovni zapiski, 2015 France Bezlaj explained the Slovenian geographical names Predoslje and Prelosno as derived from the lexeme *prěrǫslo, which he treated as the forgotten common noun *rǫslo with presumably the same root as in Rus.
Silvo Torkar
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Memantau Toponimi Dan Permasalahannya Di Indonesia
Majalah Geografi Indonesia, 2014 Publications on toponimy in Indonesia are still small in number. The term toponimy has not been widely known by the .society, although the problems that can be observed are among others: inaccuracy in providing geographical names, change in spelling, a ...
Yusron Halim
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Expressions of Cardinal Directions in Nilotic and in Ubangian Languages [PDF]
, 2007 In the Nilotic and Ubangian languages expressions for cardinal directions have been created on the basis of a wide range of conceptual sources: primarily cosmological, geographical and atmospheric concepts.
Mietzner, Angelika, Pasch, Helma
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GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES IN THE ERA OF BIG DATA A NECESSARY UPDATING IN THE CURRICULUM DESIGN OF THE GEOSCIENCIES [PDF]
Micro, Macro & Mezzo Geoinformation, 2019 After a long stage of low visibility, place names are revitalized by the digital revolution and globalization. As part of the map, geographical names were also affected by the technological and paradigms changes that revolutionized not only the ...
Adriana VESCOVO
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Vegen til stadnamnet – eit e-læringskurs om stadnamnlova og stadnamnarbeid i kommunane
Namn og Nemne, 2022 In 2020–21, the Language Council of Norway produced an e-learning course for official work with geographical names. The course deals with topics such as The Place Name Act, how to coin correct and functional address names, and to how to work through ...
Ellen Hellebostad Toft
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, 1976 What makes a word interesting? I ask this rhetorically, not inviting specific response. One has only to scan Word Ways articles to realize that some logophiles fancy word length, while others prefer word construction, word sounds, geographical names, and
Pulliam, Tom
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‘Microtoponymy’ as a key for geographical description. A case study in Catalonia, Spain [PDF]
, 2014 The study of toponyms at the micro-scale – that is, microtoponymy – is of great interest for the geographer. Place names, generally speaking, provide us with a rich and diverse source of information about the geographical space (and, moreover, about the
Tort-Donada, Joan
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Insight into the city/town names of Latvia [PDF]
, 2017 The origin of the place names is a research topic for linguists (or onomasticians) and geographers, but since ancient times a wide range of people have also been interested in the subject. As Latvia is the closest neighbour to both Lithuania and Estonia,
Balode, Laimute
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The change of religion and the names
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1990 What actually happened at the time when Denmark was christianized? An important viewpoint to the topic is the nomenclature, both personal names and place-names. What happened to these in the missionary period?
John Kousgård Sørensen
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Geopolitics of geographical urbanonyms: evidence from Ukrainian cities
Acta Universitatis Carolinae Geographica, 2020 This article focuses on geographical urbanonyms in Ukraine – names of streets, squares, lanes, etc. that refer to the names of other geographical objects like cities, regions, countries, or continents.
Olexiy Gnatiuk, Anatoliy Melnychuk
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