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hydronymy

hydronymy noun: the naming of bodies of water such as rivers and lakes.

Noun

hydronymy (countable and uncountable, plural hydronymies)

  1. The naming of bodies of water such as rivers and lakes.
    • As references to foreign hydronymies have shown, this semantic structure and development is not confined to Scotland or to the British Isles.1957, Scottish Studies - Volumes 1-2, page 239
    • In hydronymy there are many pairs of river names such as Eau Blanche/Eau Noire in France, Blanc Ruxel/Noir Ruisseau in the Vosges, France, Beli Iskdr/Cerni Iskdr in Bulgaria, Crisul Alb/Crisul Negru in Romania.1989, Jan Gijsbert Pieter Best, Manny M. W. De Vries, Thracians and Mycenaeans, →ISBN

Forms of hydronymy

pluralhydronymies

Origin of hydronymy

From hydro- + -onymy.

Questions about hydronymy

What does hydronymy mean?
Hydronymy means the naming of bodies of water such as rivers and lakes.
What part of speech is hydronymy?
Hydronymy is a noun.
What is the plural of hydronymy?
The plural of hydronymy is hydronymies.

Words near hydronymy in the dictionary

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

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