Post toponymy in your country
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>>220976403better than that, post hagiotoponymy in your countryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3NjdABlY6Y
>>220976650>The common Spanish name for the archipelago, Islas Malvinas, derives from the French Îles Malouines—the name given to the islands by French explorer Louis-Antoine de Bougainville in 1764. Bougainville, who founded the islands' first settlement, named the area after the port of Saint-Malo (the point of departure for his ships and colonists).Cool
I don't know what topnymy means and now I feel stupid
>>220977361It's like a fun size Habsburg empire
>>220977361You have to go back.
>>220977531literally "names of places" in greek, ie the origin of the word
>>220977531topos - placeonyma - name
>>220977605I like this post, it is insightful and informative>>220977598This post is intrusive and obnoxious, I despise it
>>220976403i don't have a good map of this for my country. in general areas that were part of mesoamerica have indigenous names while they decrease in the northeast, baja california, altiplano and parts of the northwest where they are mostly generic spanish names.
some sperg made this project about german town name endings https://truth-and-beauty.net/experiments/ach-ingen-zell/
>>220976403VGH... l'exception bretonne... love my Ploubazlanec and my Ploudalmézeau me...
This would be a typical Romanian village ending
>>220981165That comes from latin „-iscus”, and it is possesive.These are some of the typical Slav ones
>>220976650>>220976824>"Malvinas" isn't even SpanishThe absolute state of Argentina
>>220981279These sufixes are usually work-related Like "Olari" means "Potters" in the plural
holy autism
>>220981471Hungarian ones
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>>220981506There's other exampleshttps://arnoldplaton.wordpress.com/2014/11/02/nume-de-localitati/Even places named after peopleWe even had Brașov renamed after Stalin in the 50s
>>220980138>-owsounds polish
>>220981505>>220981546beautiful pictures
>>220981651Another caseCommies even changed the names of villages that had any religious meaning, like "Călugări/Monks" or "Crucea/The Cross" to something generic.
>>220981684Berlin is literally slavic name
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-dunCitadel in Gaulish
>>220981506Been renaming n shit didn’t you?
>>220982044?No, we kept even the weirder ones.If you're confused as to why they are few it's because those are some specific examples, like >>220980138not all of them
>>220982205You’ve been renaming Hungarian villages with Romanian names
>>220982300Quite literally noUnless you mean simply translating them to Romanian spelling, like many of those are
>>220976650>Mendoza is a Basque surnameDidn't know thatAlso>Madrid comes from arabicIt's so over
