Sökning: "place-name elements"

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  1. 1. English Place-Name Elements Relating to Boundaries

    Författare :Boel Jepson; Engelska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ge mǣre; Middle English; Old English; charters; onomastics; *rān; mearc; dialectology; the West Riding of Yorkshire; Gloucestershire; hār; rá; rein; *rǣn e ;

    Sammanfattning : Place-names often reflect local, cultural, and political history. It is only natural, therefore, that words for such historically important phenomena as boundaries should form part of place-names. In England, there is a fair number of place-name elements that refer to boundaries. Some of them are treated in this thesis. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Nordiska ortnamn på -und

    Författare :Eva Nyman; Svante Strandberg; Thorsten Andersson; Börje Tjäder; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Scandinavian languages - general; onomastics; toponymy; hydronymy; nesonymy; place-names; place-name elements; place-name chronology; suffixes; Denmark; Norway; Sweden; Scandinavia; Germanic; Indo-European; Nordiska språk - allmänt; Scandinavian languages; Nordiska språk; nordiska språk; Scandinavian Languages;

    Sammanfattning : In this thesis, an investigation and classification of Scandinavian place-names in -und is undertaken. The thesis comprises two main sections: Part 1, containing a review of earlier research and discussions of broader issues, and Part 2, consisting of studies of, individual names, arranged inalphabetical order. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Loco ubi dicitur... “La toponomastica di Vallebona e dintorni” : Un territorio di confine tra Liguria e Provenza

    Författare :Riccardo Guglielmi; Italienska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; onomastics; Italian; dialectology; Vallebona; proper names; Liguria; place name; toponymy; microtoponyms; cultural heritage; etymology; rural landscape; ethnography; language area; toponymy recording; place identity; toponymization; toponymic suffixes; diachronic and synchronic perspective; toponymic functions; toponymic competence; toponym constituent; modern and historical sources; historical-linguistic.;

    Sammanfattning : As a special part of our cultural heritage, toponyms have been handed down orally from generation to generation for centuries or more at the place where they were coined, recalling events, activities and knowledge. Especially where written documentation is relatively young, place names offer a way to reach further back into the past. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Ord för höjder och sluttningar i Daga härad : en studie över betydelsen hos två grupper terrängbetecknande appellativ och ortnamnselement

    Författare :Staffan Nyström; Ingemar Olsson; Jan Paul Strid; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; semantics; dialects; semantic fields; topographical generics; appellatives; placenames; Place Names; Ortnamn; Namnforskning; Name Care and Name Planning; Svenska; Swedish; Nordiska språk;

    Sammanfattning : When topographical generics such as backe, berg, slänt and stalp are treated in literature and dialect records, their lexical meaning is often given without details and precise semantic distinctions. It is indicated by 'synonyms' and by established agreement with other words within the same semantic field, rarely by contrasting definite differences between the words. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Gudarnas platser : Förkristna sakrala ortnamn i Mälarlandskapen

    Författare :Per Vikstrand; Svante Strandberg; Bente Holmberg; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Scandinavian languages - general; onomastics; place-names; toponymy; ancient Scandinavian religion; sacral names; holy places; Sweden; Uppland; Södermanland; Västmanland; Nordiska språk - allmänt; Scandinavian languages; Nordiska språk; Nordiska språk; Scandinavian Languages;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is the employment of a material-based investigation to create a platform for further research into sacral place-names in Scandinavia. The objective has been to delimit and evaluate a corpus of potential sacral place-names within an area selected for study, i.e. LÄS MER