hydronymy
language
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categories of names
- In name: Categories of names
…names of bodies of water, hydronymy; and names of mountains, oronymy. Additional terms are not generally used (though one occasionally hears words like chrematonymy—names of things).
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Slavic protodialects
- In Slavic languages: Hypothetical origins
…Slavic names of rivers (hydronyms), such as the Russian Oka, are of the same type as the hydronyms found in central Europe.
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