• Geonymy

    Origin

    - + geo + -

    Full definition of geonymy

    Noun

    geonymy

    (countable and uncountable; plural geonymys)
    1. The nomenclature of place names.
      • 2004, Yong-sik Yi, Shaman Ritual Music in Korea, Among twenty-five female shamans in the Society for the Preservation of Hwanghae Shamsnism, five have family-related names, four of whom are younger than forty-five years old, while twenty have geonymies (see Appendix 2).
      • 2006, Roberto Salinas Price, Homeric Whispers: Intimations of Orthodoxy in the Iliad and Odyssey, As regards Trojan geonymy, more or less 25% (18) geonyms remain intact, given the similarity with the original or in translation (TABLE 1.4).
      • 2013, Hong Yung Lee, Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea 1910-1945, Informally she would be known by her social position (new bride, daughterin-law), by teknonymy (Suni's mother), or geonymy (the girl from Pusan).
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