• syllable. Germanic toponymy Celtic toponymy German exonyms German names for Central European towns List of English exonyms for German toponyms List of European...
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  • Toponymy, toponymics, or toponomastics is the study of toponyms (proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their...
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    (disambiguation) German family name etymology German toponymy Germanism (linguistics) German exonyms List of German expressions in English List of German words of...
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  • House name may refer to: the name of a house or estate German toponymy or anthroponymy, see Hofname a type of collective pen name, see Pen name#Collective...
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  • Germanic names Dutch names German names Norman toponymy (includes Old Norse placenames in Normandy) German toponymy Celtic toponymy Placenames in the United...
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  • Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Aue may refer to: Aue (toponymy), a frequent element in German toponymy meaning "wetland; river island; river" Auē, a book...
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    Celtic toponymy is the study of place names wholly or partially of Celtic origin. These names are found throughout continental Europe, Britain, Ireland...
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    "German", tedesco (local or archaic variants: todesco, tudesco, todisco), comes from the same Old High German root, although not the name for "Germany"...
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  • been reduced to a frequent suffix -ach in Alemannic and Austro-Bavarian toponymy. The word is cognate with Old English ǣ (reflected in English placenames...
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  • names is called toponymy; for a more detailed examination of this subject in relation to British and Irish place names, refer to Toponymy in the United...
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    appellative) plus determinative (adjective). This order dominates in Occitan toponymy, as well as in western France. Instead of Neuville, in the south we find...
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  • include: Horodok Gorod (toponymy) Hrod (toponymy) Hrud Horod Hrad (toponymy) Gard (Slavic toponymy) Grod (toponymy) Grad (toponymy) The words in Polish and...
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    Zalău (category Articles containing German-language text)
    in 1601, and "Zilahu" and "Zalahu" in the 19th century, or forms of German toponymy "Waltenberg" and "Zillenmarkt". At the end of the 16th century, the...
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  • turn passed it on to the German commander of La Gazelle, enabling us to find certain names, gallacised, in today's toponymy. These include: Baie Accessible...
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  • in German language: Geroldsee. The use of Geroltzsee is attested locally as early as 1484. This information is fundamental in Romanesque toponymy and...
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    Japan (1959) Salvador, Brazil (1962) Bordeaux, France (1964) Berlin, Germany (1967) Lusaka, Zambia (1968) Mexico City, Mexico (1969) Auckland, New Zealand...
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  • List of places named after people (category Articles containing German-language text)
    after famous people. For more on the general etymology of place names see toponymy. For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see eponym. Americas...
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    ISBN 0-330-28121-6, US Edition: ISBN 0-517-55347-3) is a humorous dictionary of toponymy and etymology, written by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd, published in the...
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    Alps (redirect from German Alps)
    (in German). Zürich. April 1, 2016. Archived from the original on May 11, 2016. Retrieved May 11, 2016. "Official Timetable" (in English, German, French...
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  • Below is a list of German language exonyms for formerly German places and other places in non-German-speaking areas of the world. Archaic names are in...
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    the rest of the United States (including Hawaii), as well as to Canada, Germany, Mexico, Japan, and the United Kingdom. It is operated by an independent...
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  • Olai in his Chronica regni Gothorum (c. 1470) notes the similarity in toponymy, Swycia, quasi Suecia. This tradition was taken seriously in 19th-century...
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  • located near the Ems River Bay, about 5 miles south of Norden, Lower Saxony, Germany. From Jonkheer or Jonker meaning young gentleman (and in effect, Esquire)...
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  • Sonderweg (redirect from German Sonderweg)
    Sonderweg (German: [ˈzɔndɐˌveːk], "special path") refers to the theory in German historiography that considers the German-speaking lands or the country...
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    Franks, extending from southern France to eastern Germany. Modern France is still called Frankreich in German and similar names in some other Germanic languages...
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    Sri Lanka (section Toponymy)
    century, provide vivid descriptions of Sri Lankan dynasties. According to the German philosopher Wilhelm Geiger, the chronicles are based on Sinhala Atthakatha...
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  • first three German chancellors (Adenauer, Erhard, Kiesinger). In December 2013, Forsa asked 1002 Germans to name the most notable German chancellor: Helmut...
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  • Au (section Germany)
    (disambiguation), various Air Force universities Aue (toponymy), a frequent element in Germanic toponymy Australia (ISO 3166 country code) Au, Guinea, Kankan...
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  • Vasconic substrate hypothesis (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    languages that newly arrive at such a place take over the already existing toponymy. He concludes that most place names in Europe must therefore be pre-Indo-European...
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  • of the 18th centuries. Foreigners call them albanesi (Italian), Albaner (German), Albanians (English), Alvanos (Greek), and Arbanasi (old Serbian), the...
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