Associations to the word «Toponymy»

Wiktionary

TOPONYMY, noun. Lexicological study of place names; a branch of onomastics

Dictionary definition

TOPONYMY, noun. The nomenclature of regional anatomy.
TOPONYMY, noun. The branch of lexicology that studies the place names of a region or a language.

Wise words

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates