toponymy

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(semantics) Lexicological study of place names; a branch of onomastics.
Synonym: toponomastics
Hypernym: onomastics
Coordinate term: anthroponymy

(anatomy) The nomenclature of anatomical regions.

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It funds a Commission for Catalan Toponymy in Andorra (Catalan: la Comissió de Toponímia d'Andorra), and provides free Catalan classes to assist immigrants. Source: Internet

Toponymy Beltany stone circle in Ireland There are a number of place names in Ireland containing the word Bealtaine, indicating places where Bealtaine festivities were once held. Source: Internet

Toponymy The city, formerly named Christianssund, is named after the Danish-Norwegian king Christian VI in 1742. Source: Internet

Toponymy The derivation of the word Nepal is the subject of a number of different theories: * The Sanskrit word nipalaya means "at the foot of the mountains" or "abode at the foot"; Nepal may be derived from this. Source: Internet

Toponymy The name Piedmont comes from medieval Latin Pedemontium or Pedemontis, i.e., ad pedem montium, meaning “at the foot of the mountains” (attested in documents of the end of the 12th century). Source: Internet

Toponymy Yorkshire or the County of York was so named as it is the Shire (administrative area or county) of the city of York main or York's Shire. Source: Internet

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