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hydronyms

hydronyms is the plural of hydronym.

Meaning of hydronym

Noun

hydronym (plural hydronyms)

  1. The name of a river, lake, sea or any other body of water.
    • Numerous hydronyms of Asia Minor, attested in the historical Anatolian languages and going back to Proto-Anatolian, can be compared to the Indo-European derivational type of hydronyms in *-ntʰ-. […] Another hydronym of Proto-Anatolian origin and having wide Indo-European connections is Alda, a...1995, Thomas V. Gamkrelidze, Vjačeslav V. Ivanov, “Proto-Indo-European in Space and Time, Based on Linguistic and Culture-historical Data [part 2, chapter 11]”, in Johanna Nichols, transl., edited by...

Questions about hydronyms

What is hydronyms the plural of?
Hydronyms is the plural of hydronym.

Words near hydronyms in the dictionary

  1. hydroniums
  2. hydrons
  3. hydronym
  4. hydronymic
  5. hydronymies
  6. hydronyms
  7. hydronymy
  8. hydroosmotic
  9. hydropalladation
  10. hydropalladations
  11. hydroparastatae

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