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The Origin of the Folklore Hydronym Apolevta [PDF]
Voprosy Onomastiki, 2020 In their article devoted to hydronyms in the oral and handwritten charms of the North Russian, T. A. Agapkina, E. L. Berezovich, and O. D. Surikova comment on the name of a fiery river Apolevta assuming that there may exist two copies of the text.
Alina S. Alekseeva
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An Exploration of River Names in China
Names, 2023 As a subtype of toponym, hydronyms reflect people’s perception, understanding, and contemplation of waterbodies. With data collected from authoritative gazetteers, this study classifies the names of 189 major rivers distributed across Mainland China ...
Yuan Sun, Xiangyong Jiang
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The Croatian Hydronym and Choronym Líka and its Presumed Relatives Lech, Liẽkė, etc.
Folia Onomastica Croatica, 2023 The Croatian hydronym and choronym Lika is often mentioned together with the hydronym Lech (Austria, Bavaria) and with a group of Lithuanian and Latvian hydronyms and other toponyms and appellatives. They are all presumed to be based on the PIE root *(h1)
Harald Bichlmeier
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Acta Humanitarica Academiae Saulensis, 2023 The article newly actualizes the etymology of the hydronyms Ketvergio upalis, Neknupis, Plocis, Rikinė, Župė / Župis, situated in Klaipėda Region. Given the typology of the indicated morphophonetic changes in the word structure – change of the ...
Rolandas Kregždys
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Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 239-254, February 2021., 2021 ABSTRACT The Mau Forest Complex is Kenya's largest fragment of Afromontane forest, providing critical ecosystem services, and has been subject to intense land use changes since colonial times. It forms the upper catchment of rivers that drain into major drainage networks, thus supporting the livelihoods of millions of Kenyans and providing important ...
Esther N. Githumbi +2 more
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Hydronyms in Ocna Șugatag commune, Maramureș county [PDF]
Diacronia, 2018 The article is an analysis of hydronyms from Ocna Șugatag, Maramureș county and it represents a part of a larger research on Maramuseș toponymy. Settled on a hilly area, at the foot of Gutîi mountains, on Mara river, the boundaries of the four localities
Adelina Emilia Mihali
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Semantic aspect of hydronyms from the area of Bandici [PDF]
Univerzitetska Misao, 2017 The aim of wotk is to establish the exact number of onomastic units of Bandici region and the appointment of the same, as well as processing mikrotoponims from the morphological, semantic and etymological aspect of work and consideration of its ...
Sekulić Svetlana
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Неофилология, 2021 We analyze the features of onomastic units functioning, which are cultural-onomastic constants, in the A. Platonov’s story “The Sluices of Epifany”. We substantiate the special attention that is drawn to the specificity of the introduction by the author ...
N. B. Bugakova
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Hydronymic Space of Adygea: Structural and Semantic Organization
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2023 The paper deals with the actual issues of regional onomastic space. The names of linear hydro objects – rivers flowing through the territory of the Adyghe Republic are in the focus of consideration.
Elena A. Sokur +2 more
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On the Origin of Russian-Language Hydronyms of the Shchugor River Basin [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2020 The article discusses the history of the hydronyms Shchugor, Patok, Glubnik, Torgovaya, Volokovka, Pyatidyrka, and Semidyrka, i.e. the names of the Shchugor River and its several tributaries of the first and second orders.
Andrey G. Belyaev, Elena I. Shubnitsina
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