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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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Stewart Jr. (May 31, 1895 –
August 22, 1980) was an
American historian,
toponymist, novelist, and a
professor of
English at the
University of California...
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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...
- 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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William John
Watson (17
February 1865 – 9
March 1948) was a
Scottish toponymist and was the
first scholar to
place the
study of
Scottish place names on...
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Bright (August 13, 1928 –
October 15, 2006) was an
American linguist and
toponymist who
specialized in
Native American and
South Asian languages and descriptive...
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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...
- from a
Shoshoni word
meaning 'moccasin' or 'footprint'.
According to
toponymist William O. Bright, the name
comes from the
Shoshoni word /nampai/, meaning...
