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Component land / lond in Old English Toponymy
Известия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2019 The article is focused on the study of the linguistic unit land / lond as functioning in the toponymic system of Old English. The contextual examples of land-toponyms are drawn from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. There is an attempt to reveal the role of the
Sergey V. Mukhin
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American Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 3, Page 283-295, August 2026.Abstract Over the past two decades, gondola lifts have become central to interventions in urban Latin America's auto‐constructed peripheries. As cable car urbanism reshapes the city's edge, it raises fundamental questions about the notion of the “urban fabric” as a sociomaterial practice, an epistemology, and a site of politics.
Federico Pérez Fernández
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Proverbium, 2019 This article provides a comparison between Russian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, German, French, English, Finnish, and Tajik proverbs with toponyms.
Mikhail Bredis, Olga Lomakina
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On the Finno-Ugric substratum in the hydronymy of the Tambov region
Вестник Самарского университета: История, педагогика, филология, 2020 The article discusses hydronymic topoformants on the territory of the Tambov region, related to the Finno-Ugric substrate. Their most common series are highlighted. For some toponyms, new etymologies are proposed.
E. M. Deviatkina
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7000 Years of Aboriginal Mining at Sugarloaf Hill in the Riverland Region of South Australia
Archaeology in Oceania, Volume 61, Issue 2, Page 277-311, July 2026.ABSTRACT Silcrete and chert are commonly represented in Aboriginal archaeological lithic assemblages across large parts of the southwestern Murray‐Darling Basin (MDB). In South Australia (SA), these materials were sourced from a series of quarries located along the incised course of the Murray River through the upper Riverland region.
Craig Westell +8 more
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Ecography, Volume 2026, Issue 7, July 2026.Occurrence records are fundamental for ecological and evolutionary research, providing key information on species' geographic ranges. However, these records are often taxonomically, spatially, and temporally biased, requiring caution in their use. Here, we analysed the spatial coverage of occurrence records for over 3500 snake species worldwide to ...
Lívia Frateles +5 more
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Investigating the Onomastic Need to Rename Gender-derogatory Toponyms: A South African Perspective [PDF]
E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social SciencesThis article explores the onomastic necessity of renaming gender-derogatory toponyms in the South African landscape. It contends that there is a need to interrogate the reasons behind gender-derogatory names and how society relates to these names.
Dolly Maleka Makweya +3 more
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Modelling bedload transport at the network scale in a glacier‐fed Alpine river system
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, Volume 51, Issue 7, July 2026.We adapted the network‐scale sediment transport and connectivity model D‐CASCADE for Alpine environments and applied it to the Sulden/Solda catchment (Italy). For the first time, we validate the model with continuous bedload measurements at the catchment outlet and evaluate the plausibility of bedload dynamics along the river network with field ...
Felix Pitscheider +7 more
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 4, Page 1334-1344, July 2026.Biodiversity loss threatens ecosystem services and human well‐being. Understanding the extent and causes of changes in biodiversity over time can help protect species and their habitats. Herbaria house carefully documented and curated specimens collected by generations of botanists.
Gabriel F. Ulrich +4 more
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Description linguistique en toponymie contrastive dans une base de données multilingue
Corela, 2005 The project to establish a multi-lingual database of toponyms and its associated purpose to compare exonyms through 10 languages has stressed the necessity to analyze the toponyms, in particular the analysis of complex toponyms of the different languages
Jonas Löfström +1 more
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