Toponymy Toponymy Arrowhead is a popular place name ( toponym) in and near the western San Bernardino Mountains. The name is derived from a natural geographic formation of bare rock on the side of the mountains near San Bernardino. The city of Lake Arrowhead, California and the adjacent lake, Lake Arrowhead Reservoir, take their names from the formation as does Arrowhead Water. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arrowhead, California"
British toponymy (relating to the mainland and islands closely linked to it including the Shetland Islands, the Orkneys, and the Channel Islands) is the study of place names, their origins and the trends associated with naming places in specific regional areas. It is different from the study of etymology, which is concerned mainly with the origin of the name of a specific place. ...more on Wikipedia about "British toponymy"
* gallium – Gallia, Latin for France. Frenchman Lecoq de Boisbaudran, who was the discoverer of the metal, named it after his country and also subtly for himself. Lecoq (rooster) in Latin is gallus. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chemical elements named after places"
A Geonym is a name of a geographical feature. The term covers everything, from names of continents to those of the smallest hamlets. Each toponym, hydronym, and so on is a geonym. ...more on Wikipedia about "Geonym"
George Rippey Stewart ( May 31, 1895‑ 1980) was an American toponymist, a novelist, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley (until 1962). Born in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, Stewart was educated at Princeton University, the University of California, and Columbia University. ...more on Wikipedia about "George R. Stewart"
Isaac Taylor ( 1829- 1901), son of Isaac Taylor, was a philologist, toponymist, and Anglican canon of York (from 1885). Though he wrote several inflammatory theological pamphlets, such as The Liturgy and the Dissenters ( 1860) and Leaves from an Egyptian Notebook ( 1888), he is chiefly remembered today for his archaeological and philological studies, which include Words and Places ( 1864), Etruscan Researches ( 1874), The Alphabet ( 1883), and Greeks and Goths ( 1879), in which he argued that the runes were derived from a variety of the Hellenic alphabet used in the Greek colonies on the Black Sea about the 6th century B.C. "It would seem that the Goths, who then occupied the region between the southern coast of the Baltic and the upper waters of the Dnieper," Taylor argued in a subsequent paper, "must have obtained a knowledge of the art of writing from the merchants of Olbia and other Greek colonies on the Euxine, who, according to Herodotus, voyaged forty days' journey to the North by the great trade route of the Dnieper." ** ...more on Wikipedia about "Isaac Taylor (canon)"
The following is a list of placenames that prominently feature the names of two or more constituent geopolitical entities. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of double placenames"
This is a list of Missouri county name etymologies. Missouri counties tend to be named after American Revolutionary War generals, soldiers from other early American wars, pioneer settlers, Presidents of the United States, Governors of Missouri, state legisators, U.S. Senators and Congressmen from Missouri, geographical features, early explorers of the American West and Missouri in particular. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of Missouri county name etymologies"
This is a list of toponyms, followed by the name of the place it is derived from. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of toponyms"
The place names of the Maghreb come from a variety of origins, mostly Arabic and Berber, but including a few derived from Phoenician, Latin, and several other languages. This is well illustrated by the three largest cities of Algeria, for instance: Algiers from Arabic al-jazâ'ir "the islands", Oran from Wahran from Berber wa-iharan "place of lions", and Constantine (Arabic Qasantina قسنطينة) from the Latin name of the emperor Constantine. For a Phoenician name, one has to look a little harder, but take, for instance, Jijel, shortened from Latin Igilgili, from Phoenician i gilgilt, "Island of the Skull" (according to Lipinski.) ...more on Wikipedia about "Maghreb toponymy"
(Placename etymology) The ancient Romans used the name Africa terra --- "land of the Afri" (plural, or "Afer" singular) --- for the northern part of the continent, corresponding to modern-day Tunisia. The origin of Afer may be the Phoenician afar, dust; the Afridi tribe, who dwelt in Northern Africa around the area of Carthage; Greek aphrike, without cold; or Latin aprica, sunny. ...more on Wikipedia about "Placename etymology"
Robert Lee Ramsay ( December 14, 1880 - December 14, 1953), professor of English at the University of Missouri - Columbia from 1907 to 1952. Starting in the mid- 1920s, Ramsay started to develop a dictionary of Missouri placenames, creating a methodology and overseeing graduate research on the topic. Due to widespread availablity of the book, Our Storehouse of Missouri Place Names, Ramsay is the best known authority of the subject in Missouri. His research is used for official citations by the United States Board of Geographical Names. Ramsay was a founding member of the American Name Society. ...more on Wikipedia about "Robert L. Ramsay"
In geography and cartography, a toponym ( Gk. topos, "place", + onuma, "name") is a name of a locality, region, or some other part of Earth's surface or an artificial feature. Toponymy is the taxonomic study of place names. In some cultures, most or all such place names have a definite meaning in the language; this is not the case, generally, for place names in the English language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Toponym"
Toponymy is the taxonomic study of place names, their origins and their meanings. The word is derived from the Greek topos, place, and ounouma, name. It is itself a branch of onomastics, the study of names of all kinds. ...more on Wikipedia about "Toponymy"
Professor William J. Watson, 1865- 1948, was a toponymist, one of the greatest Scottish scholars of the 20th century, and was the first scholar to place the study of Scottish place names on a firm linguistic basis. ...more on Wikipedia about "William J. Watson"
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