- A
hydronym (from Gr****: ὕδρω, hydrō, "water" and ὄνομα, onoma, "name") is a type of
toponym that
designates a
proper name of a body of water. Hydronyms...
-
origin is the
hydronymic root *dur-,
which is Pre-Indo-European or Pre-Celtic.
Albert Dauzat linked this
river name to a Pre-Celtic
hydronymic root *dor-...
- linguistics". The only
surviving language of the
group today is Ket. From
hydronymic and
genetic data, it is
suggested that the
Yeniseian languages were spoken...
- in 1990 for Old
European preserved in
river names and
confined to the
hydronymic substratum in the
Iberian Peninsula as yet
another Indo-European layer...
- to its
distant neighbor Tahltan. Tsetsaut, however,
shares its
primary hydronymic suffix ("river, stream") with Sekani, Beaver, and Tsuut'ina – PA *-ɢah...
- the 2021 census,
there were 1,088 Kets and 7 Yugs in Russia.
Based on
hydronymic data, the
Yeniseians originated from the area
around the
Sayan Mountains...
-
reconstructed from
Meshchera based on
toponymic data, for example:
Meshchera hydronymic stems un-, ič-, vil- and ul,
which can be
compared to
Udmurt uno 'big'...
- the
quality of
their meadow springwater.
Nepet might be
considered a
hydronymic toponym of pre-Indo-European
origin from a noun
meaning "damp wide valley...
- origin;
Anreiter et al.
tried to link it to an Indo-European *on- and the
hydronymic suffix *-is-.
Later sources call it Ensa or Enisa.
Others have linked...
-
Leize is a
widespread hydronymic root
meaning 'pit', or 'ravine'. It
appears in
modern Basque dictionaries as leze 'cave'. It may be
found at the origin...
