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Nossob: from Khoikhoi meaning "black river". Ohlanga: from Zulu meaning "reed". Olifants: from Afrikaans meaning "elephants". Omi Osun: from Yoruba meaning "waters of the spirit-goddess Ọṣun ". Orange: from Afrikaans "Oranje", meaning Orange, which was named after William V, Prince of Orange.
Place name origins. In much of the "Old World" (approximately Africa, Asia and Europe) the names of many places cannot easily be interpreted or understood; [1] they do not convey any apparent meaning in the modern language of the area. This is due to a general set of processes through which place names evolve over time, until their obvious ...
In III A 2, "Etymology and Semasiology of the paleoeuropean river names", Krahe states that the oldest strata are composed by prerequisites of nature and that the river names especially refer to the water itself (rule 2), [1]: 60 and that words referring to humans and culture are newer. Both rules are important arguments for considering the old ...
R. List of rivers that have reversed direction. Rivers of classical antiquity. Rivers of Galicia. List of rivers of Sumbawa. List of rivers of the Rocky Mountains.
This article contains information about Illyrian vocabulary. No Illyrian texts survive, so sources for identifying Illyrian words have been identified by Hans Krahe [1] as being of four kinds: inscriptions, glosses of Illyrian words in classical texts, names—including proper names (mostly inscribed on tombstones), toponyms and river names—and Illyrian loanwords in other languages.
River Waveney (the "ey" part of the name means "river") Winterbourne Stream, East Sussex, UK — bourne meaning a stream that only flows in winter. River Wissey (the "ey" part of the name means "river") Withlacoochee River, Withlacoochee probably comes from the Muskogean word meaning "little river." Bakkárholtsá in the Ölfus region of ...
The village of Avoca is situated on the river. The Avoca flows into the Irish Sea at Arklow where it widens into a large estuary, giving Arklow its Irish language name an t-Inbhear Mór (the big inlet). [citation needed] The catchment area of the Avoca is 652 km 2. [2] The long term average flow rate of the Avoca is 20.2 cubic metres per second ...
Toponymy, toponymics, or toponomastics is the study of toponyms (proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their origins, meanings, usage and types. [1][2][3][4] Toponym is the general term for a proper name of any geographical feature, [5] and full scope of the term also includes proper names of all ...