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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Aue (section Rivers in Lower Saxony, Germany)
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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List of generic forms in place names in the British Isles (category English toponymy)
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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Gord (archaeology) (redirect from Hrud (toponymy))
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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Los Angeles (section Toponymy)
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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San Diego (section Kumeyaay Toponymy)
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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Name of Sweden (redirect from Toponymy of Sweden)
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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Name of France (redirect from Toponymy of France)
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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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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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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Albania (placename) (redirect from Toponymy of Albania)
of the 18th centuries. Foreigners call them albanesi (Italian), Albaner (German), Albanians (English), Alvanos (Greek), and Arbanasi (old Serbian), the...
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