toponomasticn.adj.
/tɒpɒnəʊˈmastɪk/ A. n.
(also plural) = toponymy n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > naming > study of names and naming > [noun] > study of place names
toponymy1876
toponomastic1916
1916 T. Taylor Celtic Christianity Cornwall iv. 54 Professor Loth, as the result of a careful study of Breton toponomastic, has arrived at the conclusion that the Armorican parishes were placed as early as the sixth and seventh century under the invocation of the saints..whose names they still bear.
1977 Maledicta 1 41 (heading) Macedonian toponomastics.
B. adj.
Of or pertaining to place-names.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > naming > study of names and naming > [adjective] > of place names
toponymical1882
toponymic1891
toponomastic1922
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 641 Their..toponomastic, historical and religious literatures.
1971 W. F. H. Nicolaisen in A. J. Aitken et al. Edinb. Stud. Eng. & Sc. 211 There is no basic difference in the proper handling of the Scottish toponomastic material in this respect.
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