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NamesToponyms of the Tibetan Plateau have been scarcely studied. To help address that need, this study explores cross-cultural toponymy and phonetic opacity.
Thupten Wodzer
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Northern “Mosaic”: Territorial Identity in Toponyms of Northern Cities in Ural Federal District
Nauchnyi DialogThis article explores the features of territorial identity as reflected in the urban toponyms of northern cities in the Ural Federal District. The aim of the study is to assess the current state of the urban onomastic corpus in terms of conveying local ...
M. Golomidova
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Toponyms as a Gateway to Society
Old World: Journal of Ancient Africa and Eurasia, 2021 Abui is a Papuan language spoken in Alor Island, South-East Indonesia. Although there are rich studies on the Abui language and its structure, research on Abui toponymy, which aids the understanding of language, culture, and society, deserves greater ...
Shaun Lim Tyan Gin +1 more
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Romance Loans in Middle Dutch and Middle English: Retained or Lost? A Matter of Metre1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Romance words have been borrowed into all medieval West‐Germanic languages. Modern cognates show that the metrical patterns of loans can differ although the Germanic words remain constant: loan words Dutch kolónie, English cólony, German Koloníe compared with Germanic words Dutch wéduwe, English wídow, German Wítwe.
Johanneke Sytsema, Aditi Lahiri
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Mikrotoponymy of the village Ugljare near Priština [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2010 The paper makes the analysis of micro-toponyms registered in the area of the Village of Ugljari, Serbian settlement on the riversides of the Prištevka, located within the Municipality of Kosovo Polje.
Jašović Golub M.
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Formation features of Persian toponyms
Неофилология, 2020 This research is dedicated to the comprehension toponyms in the Persian language, which have their own formation features. Being a class of nouns, Persian toponyms have a wide variety of formation due to common linguistic processes in this region.
V. I. Yuzbashyev
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EXPLORING TOPONYMS IN RUSSIAN PHILOLOGY: A LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
American Journal Of Philological SciencesToponyms, or place names, play a pivotal role in Russian philology, serving as linguistic artifacts that reflect the rich tapestry of Russian history, culture, andgeography.
Bakhtiyor Suvankulov
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On the Morphology of Toponyms: What Greek Inflectional Paradigms Can Teach us
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 77-96, March 2025.Abstract The research is a contribution to the investigation of the grammatical status of toponyms from the point of view of inflectional paradigmatic morphology. By examining data from Standard Modern Greek, as well as select data from its historical development, the analysis reveals that the inflectional morphology of toponyms shows significant ...
Michail I. Marinis
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Edvard Munch’s Toponymic Codes
Venezia Arti, 2017 The Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944) created upwards of 1789 paintings of which only 14 are inscribed with toponyms. The extreme rarity of place names in his work invites consideration.
Berman, Patricia G.
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Differential mode: manifestation in toponymics
Неофилология, 2020 We consider toponyms that are related to the same appellative or ascend to the same anthroponym or to the same family anthropolexem. We prove that this kind of nomination of toponyms contradicts its main purpose – to name single objects and creates ...
A. S. Shcherbak, R. D. Elibaeva
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