oronymy

plural oronymies

1. countableuncountableThe nomenclature of mountains, hills and other geographic rises.

   The structure of oronymies of the west-Slavonic region was suitably supplemented by I. Bihy (Germany) with his paper Zur Namentypologie in ehemaligen altsorbischen Sprachgebiet

   1992, Slovak Review - Volumes 1-2, page 194

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   The specific features of the Rockies oronymy are: a) the relatively young age of the oronyms, b) the prevalence of the transferred geographical names, c) the scarcity of the (printed) documentation, and finally d) the varied lexical inventory of specific names derived from mountain terminology as compared to other regions of Canada.

   1969, Proceedings and Transactions: Actes Et Mémoires, page 122

   The counterpart to hydronymy is oronymy, that is, the names of all "uplift" features, such as mountains, hills, capes, promontories, and rocks. Broadly interpreted, hydronymy and oronymy may be made to include almost all feature-names.

   1975, George Rippey Stewart, Names on the globe, page 13

   An ancient survival in Turkish oronymy is quite possible, but I have not found Nihan Dag on the relevant sheets of the 1 :200,000 map of Turkey, which are very detailed in matters of oronymy;

   1992, Gordon Douglas Young, Mari in retrospect: fifty years of Mari and Mari studies, page 13