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This book showcases current research into Indigenous and minority placenames in Australia and internationally.

Names, Geographical --- Geographic names --- Geographical names --- Place names --- Placenames --- Toponyms --- Names --- Geography --- Toponymy

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""What is the 'meaning' of names like Coosa and Tallapoosa? Who named the Alabama and Tombigbee and Tennessee rivers? How are Cheaha and Conecuh and Talladega pronounced? How did Opelika and Tuscaloosa get their names? Questions like these, which are asked by laymen as well as by historians, geographers, and students of the English language, can be answered only by study of the origins and history of the Indian names that dot the map of Alabama.-from the Foreword

Names, Geographical --- Names, Indian --- Geographic names --- Geographical names --- Place names --- Placenames --- Toponyms --- Names --- Geography --- Toponymy --- Indian names --- Indians

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Almost a millennium has passed since the Norse first discovered Vinland; but even earlier the Amerindian and Inuit people bestowed their own place names on Atlantic Canada. Many of these have survived not only the centuries and a variety of translations but also several attempts at cultural assimilation. There followed names from Basque, Portuguese, French, British, and other sources.Information about the evolution of place names is never static; new archaeological, historical, and linguistic sources are always being discovered. In Place Names of Atlantic Canada, historian William B. Hamilton provides a wide-ranging overview of the origin and meaning of hundreds of regional place names to reveal the colourful history of the area.Some element of selectivity was needed in the compilation of the book; there are currently 62,880 officially approved Atlantic Canadian place names recorded by the Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Place Names. In Newfoundland alone there are 200 distinct features that incorporate the word 'Green.' Hamilton concentrates on three broad categories: size - the major centres of population and most important physical features; history - those locations that have had an impact on the evolution of the Atlantic region; and human interest - those place names most likely to provoke the question 'Where did they get that name?' Based on archival research supplemented by field studies, Place Names of Atlantic Canada is the first volume to approach this topic from a regional perspective. Hundreds of cross-references lead the reader to related information in all four provinces. The book also breaks new ground in tracing the evolution of names of important undersea features on the Grand Banks and off the Nova Scotia coastline.An ideal reference book with more than 2000 entries arranged by province, alphabetically, and aided by five maps, Place Names of Atlantic Canada will appeal to anyone.

Names, Geographical --- Geographic names --- Geographical names --- Place names --- Placenames --- Toponyms --- Names --- Geography --- Toponymy --- Atlantic Provinces --- Atlantic Canada --- History, Local.

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Per quanto riguarda la documentazione dei lessemi derivati da nomi propri, anche la pur avanzata lessicografia dell'italiano mostra ancora notevoli lacune. Il Deonomasticon Italicum offre in questo campo una sistematica e commentata ricerca storica. Tramite un intenso ed accurato spoglio di testi storici e contemporanei, che considera anche fonti finora trascurate è possibile riportare datazioni molto recenti e segnalare un gran numero di nuove attestazioni e di varianti formali. La prima parte del dizionario comprende i derivati da nomi geografici (4 volumi), con l'inserimento dell'ambito particolarmente interessante degli etnici, la seconda parte è riservata ai derivati da nomi di persona (2 volumi ca.). L'opera è redatta in lingua italiana. Le sigle bibliografiche sono disponibili in internet (l'indirizzo è http://romanistik.phil.uni-sb.de/schweickard/). Sono disponibili, fino a questo momento, i 6 fascicoli che costituiscono il volume I (1997-2002) e la relativa copertina ed inoltre un "Supplemento bibliografico". A partire da ora il Deonomasticon Italicum non verrá più pubblicato in fascicoli, ma direttamente in volumi rilegati.

Italian language --- Names, Geographical. --- Geographic names --- Geographical names --- Place names --- Placenames --- Toponyms --- Names --- Geography --- Toponymy --- Etymology --- Names.

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Names, Geographical --- Geographic names --- Geographical names --- Place names --- Placenames --- Toponyms --- Names --- Geography --- Toponymy --- Dane County (Wis.) --- Dane Co., Wis. --- History, Local.