-
identified by a
name is
called its referent. A
personal name identifies, not
necessarily uniquely, a
specific individual human. The
name of a
specific entity...
- as he said
people would be
attracted there if it had a
favourable name." The
name of the
territory in the
Greenlandic language is
Kalaallit Nunaat 'land...
-
origins for the
name. One
dates to the
Sumerian city of Uruk and is thus
ultimately of
Sumerian origin.
Another possible etymology for the
name is from the...
-
officially the
Kingdom of
Thailand and
historically known as Siam (the
official name until 1939), is a
country in
Southeast Asia on the
Indochinese Peninsula...
- the
island this
name after Malta's
endemic subspecies of bees. Alternatively,
other scholars argue for
derivation of the Gr****
name from an original...
- the
Celtic root *lukot- ('mouse'), or from *luto- ('marsh, swamp'). The
name Paris is
derived from its
early inhabitants, the Parisii, a
Gallic tribe...
-
native name for the
entire island of Hispaniola. The
name was
restored by
Haitian revolutionary Jean-Jacques
Dessalines as the
official name of independent...
- modifications,
introducing a
distinctive name to
designate the country.
Other languages have left the
name untouched, such as the
Russian Туни́с (Tunís)...
-
arrived in
Panama in August, when
butterflies are abundant, and that the
name means "many butterflies" in one or
several of the
indigenous American Indian...
- the holy Atropatene". The
name "Atropates" is the Gr****
transliteration of an Old Iranian,
probably Median,
compounded name with the
meaning "Protected...
