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ANTHROPOGENIC APPELLATIVE DERIVED ORONYMS OF HISTORICAL UMAN REGION [PDF]
The aim of the article is to find out the motives for the nomination of some oronyms of the historical Uman region that covers certain districts of Cherkasy, Kirovohrad and Vinnytsia regions and tends to belong to Uman.
Oksana B. Kolesnyk +1 more
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Toponymie, dénomination et nom propre
This article explores oronyms, proper nouns that designates parts of the relief, as a sub-category of toponyms within proper names. Beyond research works in the fields of historical linguistics and onomastics, few publications in linguistics have been ...
Samia Ounoughi
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The purpose of this contribution is to separate Baltic *kalu̯ā “hill” from Baltic *kalnas “mountain” and to connect it with Indo-Aryan *kū́lva-, Iranian *karu̯a- „thin-haired“; Greek *κόλϝος “docked, hornless”; Italic *kalau̯o- & *kalau̯ā “bald (head)”,
Václav Blažek
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The oronymy of Međimurje still has not been catalogued or systematically dealt with. Following a brief review of studies of Međimurje oronymy, the author sketches out the morphological, word-formational, and semantic features of current official ...
Ines Virč
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To the Historical Geography of Ossetia: The Historical Region of Khokh [PDF]
The present article advocates that the oronym Khokhis K’avk’asi “the Khokh Caucasus,” catalogued by the Georgian geographer Vakhushty in the beginning of the 18th century as the name for the Side Ridge in Central Ossetia, corresponds to the historical ...
Yuri A. Dzitstsoity
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Overspreading of toponyms in dependence on economic development in the example of Mountain Zlatibor [PDF]
Toponyms are proper geographic names of longer historic-geographic continuation. Local population inherits them by generation, remember them and inform both descendants and population of their spatial encirclement.
Vemić Mirčeta
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Croatian Onomastic Terminology Related to Saintly Names [PDF]
Saintly names are frequent constituents of the general Croatian onymy – anthroponymy (e.g. first name Ivan; family name Ivković), toponymy (e.g. oikonym Sveti Vid Dobrinjski, Donji Vidovec, oronym Sveta Gera, nesonym Sveti Grgur) and chrematonymy (e.g ...
Ankica Čilaš Šimpraga
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Microtoponymy of Berkovo village near Prekoruplje [PDF]
This paper deals with the microtoponymy of the Berkovo village, which is situated on the left bank of Beli drim, in the area called Prekoruplje. Its accurate location is between Ozdrim and Pećka Bistrica confluence with the Drim.
Jašović Golub M.
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To the Origins of Russian Surnames with the Stem Maur- [PDF]
The paper delves into the etymology of East Slavic (including Russian) surnames with the stem Maur- (Maur, Maurenko, Maurin, Maurinov, Maurov, Maurtsev, etc.).
Nadezhda V. Kabinina
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This article is devoted to the traditional mechanisms of semioticisation of natural landscape, which are considered with reference to revered boulder stones of Northern Prikamye.
Svetlana Yurievna Korolyova
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