toponym
IPA: tɑpʌnɪm
noun
- A placename.
- (less common) A word derived from the name of a place.
- (anatomy) The technical designation of any region of an animal.
Advertisement
Examples of "toponym" in Sentences
- That would depend on which toponym.
- The meaning of the toponym is unclear.
- The origin of the town's toponym is obscure.
- The toponym existed at the time of the Arabs.
- His name may be the source of the toponym Margate.
- And it is not a matter of using an Armenian toponym.
- That the toponym was Krewo, at the time in question.
- The Confusion Respecting the Toponyms of Kish and Gis.
- The source of the first part of the toponym is unclear.
- By repute it is the shortest toponym in the United Kingdom.
- It seems more convincing to derive the toponym from economic activity than shaving fashions.
- The Indus Valley Civilization has been tentatively identified with the toponym Meluhha known from Sumerian records.
- I am fascinated by Aegean substratum languages and there is a toponym: Lachish is the Southern Levant that is pre-Semitic.
- Royjking2: "I am fascinated by Aegean substratum languages and there is a toponym: Lachish is the Southern Levant that is pre-Semitic."
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- '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.
Advertisement
Advertisement