Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A place name.
- noun A name derived from a place or region.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In biology, a scientific name antedated by another name based on the same type.
- noun In anatomy, a topical or topographical name; the technical designation of any region of an animal, as distinguished from any organ: correlated with organonym and some similar terms. See
toponymy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A name of a place.
- noun a name, as in the binomial name of a plant, based on, or derived from, a place name, or based on the location of the thing named.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
place name - noun a
word derived from the name of a place
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the name by which a geographical place is known
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It is possible the toponym preexisted everything else, so we have Cyprus the place naming both the metal mined there and the tree grown there.
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It seems more convincing to derive the toponym from economic activity than shaving fashions.
Ulster etymology nwhyte 2009
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'Hidden One', with similar epithets in Greek Ἅιδης 'Hades' *hwe*whGoth -uh, and the Gothic toponym auha instead of ahwa Possibly the ablaut difference between the strong and oblique cases yielded the generalization of two different paradigm-forms.
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I am fascinated by Aegean substratum languages and there is a toponym: Lachish is the Southern Levant that is pre-Semitic.
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Royjking2: "I am fascinated by Aegean substratum languages and there is a toponym: Lachish is the Southern Levant that is pre-Semitic."
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It is possible the toponym preexisted everything else, so we have Cyprus the place naming both the metal mined there and the tree grown there.
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One of the adult slave women and all of the farm's nine slave children were born at the Cape, their toponym "of the Cape" an embodiment of their creole status.
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008
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During previous archaeological survey campaigns (1993-1997), we had observed that all the places with the toponym “kale” (or fortress in Turkish) bore the remains of (extensive) fortification walls or (smaller) forts.
Survey of the Kales « Interactive Dig Sagalassos – City in the Clouds 2009
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During previous archaeological survey campaigns (1993-1997), we had observed that all the places with the toponym “kale” (or fortress in Turkish) bore the remains of (extensive) fortification walls or (smaller) forts.
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The Indus Valley Civilization has been tentatively identified with the toponym Meluhha known from Sumerian records.
Archive 2008-05-01 Jan 2008
awils1 commented on the word toponym
The Wordie definition is a little obscure. I found WiseGeek to be helpful.
July 8, 2008