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The study and description of toponyms is one of the oldest topics in linguistics (Levinson, 2003) and philology. It is an area of study that explains the history of a region and describes topographical features of the landscape. Place names encode multiple pieces of information that a linguistic and anthropological analysis helps to reveal. The objective of this article is to describe the toponyms of the Yucatec Maya of Kopchen, Quintana Roo, focusing on their meanings through the description of their lexical-morphological and phonological properties. The ethnography of communication (Gumperz and Hymes 1964) is used here, employing semi-structured interviews for the elaboration of the corpus. This article shows that the morphemes that form the native Mayan toponyms reveal information directly related to the place, in contrast to the toponyms that come from Spanish. All toponyms are multimorphemic; lexical morphemes refer to different categories of words. The head of a toponym was crucial in determining endocentric constructions and exocentric constructions. Morphologically, only the feminine gender or individualizing mark (i)x and the suffix -il are observed in toponyms. However, at the clausal level there are more inflectional morphemes in toponyms. Phonologically, toponyms borrowed from Spanish adapt to the phonological rules of Yucatec Maya with vowel lengthening and then receiving tones. The loanwords become more and more complex according to the different productions of the speakers. This article reveals several points that help the literature in general to broaden its knowledge about toponymy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study addresses, from citizen science and participatory social mapping approaches with a geographical focus, the recovery of forgotten, omitted or poorly georeferenced toponyms in official topographic mapping, with the aim of highlighting their geographical and social value, to contribute to the enrichment and conservation of local territorial culture, and to support possible institutional cartographic revisions. The results include contributions to the knowledge of the local toponymic heritage, focusing on Herencia (Ciudad Real) as a case study, with recoveries, relocations or inventory of variants, which highlight the interest of this type of study. It concludes by highlighting the importance of the revision and recovery of toponyms in local studies, still scarce in Spain, necessary to avoid the loss of this intangible cultural heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The present work has four objectives: 1) to document the existence of a place called La Barrosa (barro= mud) on the ancient coast of Doñana, 2) to locate it spatially, 3) to hypothesise about its origin, and 4) to describe its uses over time. To this end, written and cartographic sources from the 15th to 18th centuries have been analysed and contrasted with the geomorphological and archaeological information available for the area. The analysis of documentary sources has made it possible not only to determine the spatial location of La Barrosa, but also to appreciate its temporal evolution in relation to the dune dynamics and its changes of use. La Barrosa must have disappeared during the first half of the 17th century with the set in motion of the dunes and coastal progradation. However, the presence of mud appears in the description of the Doñana coast in 1743 with a new place name, El Guerrero. The description of the existence of different materials suggests that a Roman settlement may have existed at the site of La Barrosa/El Guerrero. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Yaghan is the southernmost of the Andean languages that Adelaar and Muysken (2004) systematise by area, from the Chibcha sphere to Tierra del Fuego. The language of the Yaghan, a nomadic canoe people, was spoken over a wide territory stretching from the channels and coasts in the south of Tierra del Fuego to Cape Horn. This large area gave rise to numerous toponyms, most of them forgotten today, which are a valuable source of linguistic and cultural information. This work compiles and collates a set of toponyms registered in maps and exploration reports from the 19th century, to which is added a new, unpublished corpus, collected by Martin Gusinde in the framework of his ethnological work with the Yaghan at the beginning of the 20th century. This corpus is registered in a topographical chart that includes almost 400 names in the indigenous language. The theoretical-methodological framework for this study correlates morphological analysis with semantic motivations and proposes a culture-linked lexicological interpretation based on documentary sources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the egoznimization strategies applied to Polish and polonized geographical names in the French memoirs of François Paulin Dalerac. It is established that the author, in order to bring the exotic names closer to the French audience, on the one hand used a wide range of adaptation techniques (foreign quotations, graphical modifications, taking over names with the help of intermediary languages, reflexive loanwords, morphological and syntactic adaptation). On the other hand, he attempted to faithfully imitate the source forms (both at the level of pronunciation and spelling), using a variety of procedures which resulted in exophones and exographs (often placed in the margins or distinguished graphically) imitating source forms, important for the linguistic landscape of the areas described. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The North American Stratigraphic Code ("the Code") addresses the naming of formal geologic units from a scientific perspective. Guidelines based on scientific rationale are provided for assigning and revising unit names. However, whereas some scientific codes and guidelines now address the problem of offensive or inappropriate names, the Code at present has no means of addressing such matters. This omission presents a problem because most categories of formal units covered by the Code are named after geographic features, and some units have thus inherited culturally offensive or inappropriate names. The naming of geographic features (toponymy) also has reflected the historic suppression of Indigenous languages in North America. To address the first issue, additions and changes to the Code are proposed around the use of culturally offensive or inappropriate names: to explicitly counsel against their use; to provide a simplified process to rename scientifically valid units; and to invalidate nomenclatural stability as a justification for retaining such unit names. To address the second issue, additions to the Code are proposed that recognize maps produced by Indigenous governments or organizations as sources of geographic names, and that encourage the respectful use of Indigenous place names. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A close relationship has frequently been noted between the Caverio planisphere, generally dated c. 1506, and the Cantino planisphere, datable to October 1502. A careful examination of the placenames on the coast of Africa on the Caverio and Cantino planispheres and other early Portuguese and Portuguese-derived charts reveals the Caverio planisphere was probably not derived from the Cantino planisphere. The charts and planispheres are believed to be copied or derived from the Padrão Real, the Portuguese Royal Standard Map representing all the geographical knowledge at the time. The most likely explanation is that the Caverio planisphere is copied from the Padrão Real of c. 1505–06, while the Cantino planisphere reflects the cartography of the previous version of the Padrão Real of 1502. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Toponymy is the field of Linguistics dedicated to the study of proper names of places (toponyms). This is one of the areas of Onomastics, which studies proper names in general. This study analyzes toponymic signs in Libras that name urban spaces (squares, parks, and leisure spaces) in the City of Rio Branco, State of Acre, Brazil. It taps into the morphological structure and the semantic-motivational aspects of 12 toponymic signs. The study methodology is built on Sousa (2018, 2019b, 2022a, 2022b), who drew on Dick's (1990, 1992) theoretical and methodological framework. The results pointed to a hybrid compound formation in 42% of the signs and material culture references as motivation for 42% of them (ergotoponyms). The results are part of the Project "Toponymy in Libras", developed at Universidade Federal do Acre. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article continues an area of research undertaken and applied in Minorca and main aim is to verify how an analysis of names can provide an important source of geographical information. There has been a huge increase in naming or toponymy analysis in recent years. A qualitative and quantitative analysis of the largest corpus of names in the Pine Islands (Ibiza and Formentera) confirms compliance with the principles of transparency and territorial significance with which the general characteristics and singularities of the island landscapes are described. The classification and systematisation of place names and their most frequent and genuine generics enables us to delve into the most representative features of the distinct historical and cultural identity of these Mediterranean islands. Both the methodology and results are suggested as a template and contribution to progress to geography as an innovative science that uses names (or toponymy) as a tool for territorial knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Urban and peri-urban topography of Castelló de la Plana is analyzed using a double methodology. On the one hand, a qualitative type, based on a literature review and fieldwork; on the other, a quantitative type, based on a DEM map (LiDAR technology). Through an interpretation of the analyzed place names, some natural (surface relief, water, vegetal coverage, surface hardness) and cultural (agricultural, craftsmanship, business) extinct landscapes of Castelló de la Plana are virtually reconstructed, after having been lost over the last decades. The toponymic analysis carried out aims to highlight the heritage values of these extinct landscapes, of which only the place name is preserved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main purpose of this article is to present how geographical names reflect the specificity of the region. The onimic inquiring sight contains over 1000 microtoponyms that were collected during the geographical exploration from 2011 to 2017 in the Wręczyca Wielka community near Kłobuck, in the north of the Silesian Province. During the analysis of the above-mentioned toponomastic inquiry sight, the author used all information which were received from respondents (mainly from representatives of the oldest and middle generation) during informal conversations with the focus method. The first part of the text is devoted to the presentation of the basic methodological solutions and previous research. In the second part of this article, on the basis of detailed analysis of the geographical names of the Wręczyca Wielka community, the elements of environment and cultural factors captured in the geographical names, are presented. The microtoponyms reflect the specificity of the Wręczyca Wielka community because they archive data related to the natural and anthropogenic characteristics of the region. These record information, i.a. about: poorly diverse topography, underdeveloped hydrographic network, high degree of afforestation, iron mining, as well as old national relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The city of Madrid had a historical Islamic presence for over 700 years, from the founding of the city in times of the Emirate to the Morisco period. This article analyzes how this historical footprint is reflected in the urban toponymy, both in contemporary commemorative names and in those of a traditional nature. To do so, the place names registered since 1835 have been analyzed and the historical or legendary narratives that link certain places in the city with Islamic presence (usually in the form of the stereotypical figure of the Moor) have been studied, through the examination of various reference works on Madrilenian toponymy. Graphic representations that refer to Islamic presence in certain streets have also been analyzed. The article reveals that although the historical Islamic presence (Andalusí, Mudejar and Morisco) is a relevant element of Madrid's history, it is barely reflected in urban toponymy, which could be a symptom of difficulty integrating such presence into collective heritage and identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to present a general survey of dissertations and theses produced in the context of several stricto sensu postgraduate programs from Brazilian universities with themes focused on toponymy research. The time frame established for the survey was the period from 1980 to January 2020 and the method used for data collection was the Simple Search for the Lattes Curriculum (CNPq, n.d.). The research resulted in a total of 142 works already completed and defended. It was possible to verify, through the analysis of the data, that the most prominent universities with regard to the quantity of works produced in the area in question are the Universidade de São Paulo (USP), a Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMS) e a Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS). The analysis of the titles also allowed to observe that the researchers have opted for different excerpts for their research, such as, for example, focus on the type of semantic motivation of the designatives, on the relations between toponymy and history, on the linguistic origin of the toponyms, on the making of atlases, glossaries and toponyms dictionaries, among others; in addition, the survey shows that the relationship between toponymy research and teaching has been a focus of interest for some researchers in recent years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This contribution discusses Mazovian water and place names which are considered by some toponomasticians to be of Prussian origin. Using several examples, it is shown that this conclusion was drawn on the basis of outdated literature on the subject and disregarding more recent publications, with the oldest attestations of names (Narew, Wkra, Puszów Las and Puzów Stok) were not included in the considerations, nor were attestations referring to other topographical objects (Miedzna) assigned to them. Other names with an evidently Baltic basis were omitted (e.g. the first element in the name Kiejstutów Bród). Some of the discussed names in terms of their structure are Polish names with Polish appellatives as their basis (Rapaty, Kolno), the bases of others are names included in the oldest European naming layer, which may have functioned in both Slavic and Baltic languages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The rich fabric of place names knitting together the Americas weaves into a complex intercultural network of naming practices that span thousands of years as well as the globe. Indigenous, European, and settler communities each bestowed names upon places near and far whose meanings describe the place, its resources, or one's experiences there. Names define the people who occupy a place. They commemorate an event or person in ways that evidence the gendered and racialized nature of place naming in the Americas, especially after 1492, through a predominately masculine lens. This study considers how women and people of color are represented in place names and the impacts of masculinist approaches to place nomenclature while contrasting Indigenous approaches to toponymy and the European reception of Indigenous place names in the Americas, with a focus on North America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The toponym Valladolid has been subject of debate and controversy from the 19th century to the present due to the difficulty of unraveling its origin and meaning. The reasons for rejecting the viability of the two most consolidated hypotheses, one of Arab derivation, Balad Walīd, and another with Latin and Celtic elements, Vallis Tolitum, are explained, and Baldat Ulit is presented as the alternative according to the oldest preserved documentation, the rules of phonetic evolution in the Ibero-Romance languages, and the historical, material and cultural context of the Valladolid, both its area and town, during the 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th centuries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Vineyards are very abundant in Spain and have a great capacity to generate toponymy. In this paper, the distribution of vineyard place names has been analyzed, in order to know if the frequency of these names is similar between territories and if they are associated with the crops. For this, firstly, the vineyard toponyms of the Basic Geographic Gazetteer of Spain have been identified. Subsequently, a goodness of fit test has been carried out between the distribution of the observed place names and those which would derive from its proportional distribution taking into account the total area of each region and its area of vineyards. Finally, an independence test between the distribution of the place names and the crops has been carried out. Goodness of fit and independence have been checked using the Chi-square test. The results show that vineyard toponymy is not distributed evenly between regions and there is an association between toponymy and vine cultivation. However, this does not occur in all regions: there are areas where today such association is unrecognizable due to the cultivated areas with no toponymy and others with a high frequency of fossilized place names which mark where the old vineyard landscapes are. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

These historical geography notes reopen the issue of the ancient toponym Gemellæ in the written sources of medieval Maghreb, in which the place name appears in different graphic forms. The place, which played quite an important role in the configuration of the southern boundaries of Roman Numidia, is located in the western part of the Ziban mountains, in Algeria. The area constitutes a large geographic region in south-eastern Algeria, between the southern part of the Aurès mountain range and the Lower Sahara. The paper recalls how the ancient place name Gemellæ (sometimes associated with the small town of El Kasbat) came to be identified with the Arab-Berber place name Jamīlā, through the critical reading of some texts from the medieval Maghreb (chroniclers and geographers) and specialized bibliography. One of the central aspects of this brief note revolves around the somewhat surprising contribution by the eastern geographer al-Muqaddasī, who provided the spelling of the toponymic name Jamīlā. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Place names (toponyms) are proper nouns describing natural and cultural features of a landscape. They often become fossilized over time. The diachronic perspective offered by some place names allows to virtually reconstitute part of the natural and cultural elements of disappeared landscapes. Toponymy also has a referential value, because it designates places and distinguishes them from other places. It also has an identity value, since the inhabitants of a place feel affectionately linked to their living place and, therefore, to the place name. Finally, it is also an ideological science, because the political context determines the choice of one precise place name and not another plausible one. In this paper, which focuses on the case of the municipalities of the Valencian region of La Plana de Castelló, we carried out a new method of classification and interpretation, linked to the rise of critical toponymy recently developed among English-speaking geographers. Certain patterns of toponymic behavior are detected from this study method, which help us to understand the dominant ideological context in our study area. These patterns can be extrapolated to other related territories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Our knowledge of human past remains incomplete without an understanding of the territory. Land has always been essential for human life. This article aims at broadening this knowledge by analyzing the role of territory in the construction of collective identity at two key moments: in the creation of toponyms and in the building up of an image of pride and reputation, in this case, during the Middle Ages. Among all the territorial elements present in both processes, water had a special prominence. Madrid, the closing chapter of this piece of research, is one of the most clear examples of the importance of water in identity development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The following paper is interested in the theoretical aspect of linguistic work. That is why it points out its importance when dealing with disciplines such as linguistics, which work on objects that are the product of theoretical reflections. For this purpose, we try to distinguish which are the different objects of study used in a field of linguistics such as toponymy. The main objective is to demonstrate how the objects used for linguistic analysis are, in reality, the result of a theoretical and methodological elaboration guided by the particular interests and objectives of the researcher. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article discusses a visit by Spanish diplomat Alonso Vásquez de Cisneros to study the geography of the Andean region of Mucuchíes in Venezuela during the early 17th century. It provides a discourse analysis of the correspondence of Cisneros concerning the Mucuchíes environment. The author studies the toponymy, or the origin of the place names, of the region by Cisneros. He also analyzes Cisneros' description of the territory in and around Mucuchíes during this informative visit mandated by the Spanish monarchy. A list of geographical terms with descriptions by Cisneros is also provided.

The paper intends to present a colourful image of continental Portugal, based on 62 inhabited place names found on the Portuguese territory in which exists a reference to any colour. The studied toponymes, collected in their majority from indexes of two cartographic sources, are analysed from eti-mological-semantic and formal point of view (corresponding, respectively, to division according to colour and classification in three groups: simple colour names, derivatives from colour names and composed names). The final considerations contain conclusions resulting from the analysis, accompanied by a provisory map illustrating some of indicated phenomena. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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