geonymy

Noun

geonymy (countable and uncountable, plural geonymies)

1. The nomenclature of place names.
   • 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).2004, Yong-sik Yi, Shaman Ritual Music in Korea, page 80
   • As regards Trojan geonymy, more or less 25% (18) geonyms remain intact, given the similarity with the original or in translation (TABLE 1.4).2006, Roberto Salinas Price, Homeric Whispers: Intimations of Orthodoxy in the Iliad and Odyssey, →ISBN