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The term toponymy comes from Ancient Greek: τόπος / tópos, 'place', and ὄνομα / onoma, 'name'. The Oxford English Dictionary records toponymy (meaning "place name") first appearing in English in 1876. [9] [10] Since then, toponym has come to replace the term place-name in professional discourse among geographers. [1]
Nyström found the book's discussion of place names as products of shifting human emotions and ambitions particularly insightful. [2] Sergei Basik said the work is a ground-breaking college textbook in toponymy and lauded its thematic range spanning from linguistic investigations to discussions on naming practices and decolonization.
Toponymy (or more precisely toponomastics), one of the principal branches of onomastics, is the study of place names. [8] Anthroponomastics is the study of personal names. [9] Literary onomastics is the branch that researches the names in works of literature and other fiction. [10]
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Brobdingnagian, meaning very large in size — Brobdingnag, fictional land in the book Gulliver's Travels; Cloud cuckoo land, an unrealistically idealistic state where everything is perfect, from The Birds by Aristophanes; Eden, any paradisaical area, named after the religious Garden of Eden
However, through the promulgation of the Punjab University Act (Amendment) Ordinance 1954, the Board of Secondary Education, Punjab was established in the province which took from the said university control of examinations of secondary, intermediate and Pakistani and classical languages.
K. Cameron, A Dictionary of British Place Names (2003). R Coates, Toponymic Topics - Essays on the early toponymy of the British Isles. E. Ekwall, The Oxford English Dictionary of English Place-Names, Oxford University Press, Fourth Edition (1960) E. McDonald and J. Creswell, The Guinness Book of British Place Names (1993).
Oregon Geographic Names is a compilation of the origin and meaning of place names in the U.S. state of Oregon, published by the Oregon Historical Society. The book was originally published in 1928. The book was originally published in 1928.