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definite article (such as "The Bend" or "The Dalles").
Probably the
first toponymists were the
storytellers and
poets who
explained the
origin of specific...
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referred to
Grand Bahama alone but was used
inclusively in
English by 1670.
Toponymist Isaac Taylor argues that the name was
derived from
Bimani (Bimini), which...
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named after the
legendary giant highwayman Bertram de Shotts,
though toponymists give the Anglo-Saxon scēots ("steep slopes") as the real
source of the...
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Stewart Jr. (May 31, 1895 –
August 22, 1980) was an
American historian,
toponymist, novelist, and a
professor of
English at the
University of California...
- of the word fuji is in the
Yamato language rather than Ainu. ****anese
toponymist Kanji Kagami argued that the name has the same root as
wisteria (藤, fuji)...
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Snorri attributes the name to king Agne and fit ("wet meadow"), but
toponymists have
suggested that Agne- can be
derived from the
practice of baiting...
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island name
itself is uncertain. The
earliest forms of the name
enabled toponymist William J.
Watson to
state that it
originally meant something like "yew-place"...
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Cornish language,
according to a 19th-century writer. However,
modern toponymists[which?]
agree that the name in fact
translates as "farm/settlement of...
- Cameron, CBE, FSA, FRHistS, FBA (21 May 1922 – 10
March 2001) was a
British toponymist and academic,
specialising in
English place-names.
Having taught at the...
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October 1948 in St Pancras, London, England) is an
English medievalist and
toponymist specializing in
Welsh and
Cornish studies. He is
currently Honorary Research...
