How To Use Toponym In A Sentence
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This immediately smells like false parsing to me since one could equally come up with other ad hoc 'toponymic formants' like *-asia and find examples like Ocrasia and Planasia to serve as 'evidence' with far too much ease to suit my skeptical nature.
The origin of Perugia
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The project relied on teamwork, the collection of toponyms, the drawing of sketch maps, and the interpretation of air photos.
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From left to right, the painter sets out the toponyms of seven Tepanec or affiliated altepemeh - the Tepanec Confederacy ruled by Azcapotzalco - in an approximate geographic order, with southeast at left and northwest at right.
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The principal legacy left behind in those territories from which the language of the Britons were displaced is that of toponyms.
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In the main variant, the legend relies both on the sniggeringly received news of the defeat of the father's expectation and on the mangling of the English language - a grammatically incorrect sentence with toponymic consequences.
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But the much sparser toponymic evidence from Ireland tells us that only the place-names in the rural hinterlands of the towns were influenced by those of Scandinavian speech.
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An associate of the Poor Catholics, Ermengaud of Béziers, wrote the polemic Contra haereticos between 1200 and 1210; it focused on the Cathars but included some material on the Waldenses. 15 Ermengaud's toponymic indicates that he wrote in and/or came from the region closely associated with Catharism and from a city that was infamously sacked by the crusaders not long after the text's composition.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
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The final two chapters expound on the controversial issue of changing Muslim names: one focuses on personal names and the other on toponyms.
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Joined together by a red line that begins near the palace's law court, the first set consists of the two toponyms to the left of Tetzcoco's, Teotihuacan at left and Otompan at right.
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Without literary traditions, they relied on mental maps for describing places and fixed specific locations using toponyms and oral descriptions.
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Putting a toponym on a map, for example, does transform the cognitive geographical knowledge from verbal into hard-copy map medium, but it in no way erases other society-nature views related to it.
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George R. Stewart (1895-1980), midcentury novelist and co-founder of the American Name Society, gave onomastics a good name with his classic "Names on the Land" (1945), a learned and rollicking act of patriotic toponymy.
A Long Way From Dullsville
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The official topographic maps of the region, however, contain only a few Inuktitut place names, and it became clear that toponymic work leading to the immediate production of maps was highly appreciated.
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The toponymy of each of the 20 zonal maps was carefully checked.
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To the right of Azcapotzalco's toponym and Maxtla's corpse bundle, the artist displays Nezahualcoyotl's two allies of the Triple Alliance, Itzcoatl and Totoquihuatzin, the tlahtoqueh of Tenochtitlan and Tlacopan, respectively.
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The continual references to the toponymy, or place names, of Dublin suggest the chapter's investment in the rhetoric of cartography.
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Rereading a well-loved thread made me nostalgic for the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which reminded me of one of my favorite bizarre toponymic equivalences: the Hungarian name for the capital of Austria, whose other names Wien, Vienna, &c derive from Latin Vindobona, is Bécs.
Languagehat.com: BECS.
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The mapping authenticated indigenous toponymy in Darien.
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Indeed, toponyms often embed the meaning of that place in their etymology.
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Without literary traditions, rural folk share elaborate cognitive maps with others through the use of toponyms that give geographic orientations.
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4 The documentation includes maps with all known toponyms (historical cultural cartography), ethnohistory, census, socioeconomic study, and basic use zones.
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Documents from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, especially those written by road engineers suggesting the best routes for trails or railroads, give detailed hydrographic information with associated Amuesha toponyms.
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It is a shame that the Canadian toponymic committee does not recognize exclamation marks as being a legitimate part of place names!
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 1
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This toponymy, dating from medieval times, reappeared spontaneously in southern and eastern Ukrainian towns and cities, such as Kherson, Mykolaiv, and Simferopol that were built in the eighteenth century.
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I am certain I'm not the only lover of words and etymology around here (oh and toponymy, too!)
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The chapter, which takes up fewer than 30 pages, contains (by my count) nearly 200 toponyms of nations, counties, towns, streets, rivers, buildings, and other geographical features.
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First, identification of Turkish toponyms with those in the Venetian documents permits us to locate all the toponyms found in the Venetian sources.
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Perhaps the most commonly narrated Spanish usurpation of a Miskitu toponym is the colonial name referring to the Moskitia itself, Taguzgalpa.
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The title had again changed; more crucially, the toponymic element had been dropped, and it had become a multi-volume affair.
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I checked the French toponymic dictionary for Indre-et-Loire in the hopes of finding something relevant, but no luck.
Languagehat.com: POEME EN LANGUE INCONNUE.
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Here's hoping that his misrendering of toponymic shibboleths is the worst damage they suffer.
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And from their list of links I got to the Scottish Place-Name Society, which "exists for the support of all aspects of toponymic studies in Scotland, and in particular the work of the Scottish Place-Name Database at the University of St. Andrews and the University of Edinburgh.
Languagehat.com: ONOMASTICON.
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The sources are complementary in identifying and locating toponyms, still a painstaking task, but immensely valuable for any study of settlement patterns.
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Azoria is the local toponym for a distinctively rounded and double-peaked hill overlooking the Bay of Mirabello in northeastern Crete.
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Toward the left of the upper horizontal band, just above the second and third from the left of the seven toponyms of the Tepanec Confederacy, traces remain of a calendrical date, either Four or Five Flint Knife.
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Having given agency to the geometric ‘line’ itself, Boelhower envisages evasion of its universalising influence via cartographic toponyms whose inherent particularity opens ‘a trap door… in the written surface of the map’ .
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Another excellent example of toponymic work is the Gazetteer of Inuit Place Names in Nunavik, undertaken with the cooperation of the Inuit elders of Nunavik and the Avataq Cultural Institute.
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It is pointed out that the adoption of the place names of the Nanhai Islands habitually used by local fishermen is of significance to toponymy and defending state sovereignty.
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The methods employed in this project are easy to use, making them helpful to local communities involved in toponymy and other mapping projects.
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Or, to be blunt, how to get something named after you.… From anecdotal evidence gathered in From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow and elsewhere, this reviewer suggests the surest route to toponymic immortality is becoming the President of the United States of America.
The Chicago Blog: Review: Monmonier, From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow
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Without the names board to quell squabbles, the time is ripe for toponymic powerplays.
Crosscut
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A second workshop was held in Caloveborita in September 1999 to review the census results and community mapping work and to transfer toponyms from the sketch maps to the cartographic sheets.
