• Look up oronym in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Oronym may refer to: Oronym (toponymy), a type of toponym, designating a proper name of a mountain or...
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  • of places containing recursive elements (e.g. Red River Valley Road). oronyms - proper names of relief features, like mountains, hills and valleys, including:...
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    Any geographical object Toponym Body of water Hydronym Mountain or hill Oronym Region or country Choronym Any inhabited locality Econym Village Comonym...
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    Salentino). This connection is further supported by the fact that also the oronym Beskydy, a series of mountain ranges in the Carpathians, has a meaning in...
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    Eight-thousander (category Oronyms)
    The eight-thousanders are the 14 mountains recognized by the International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation (UIAA) as being more than 8,000 metres...
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    a hydronym—i.e. a name linked to the river (Rhône), but perhaps also an oronym of terrain (the Rocher des Doms). The Auenion of the 1st century BC was...
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    same-sounding multiple words or phrases, by referring to them as "oronyms", but the term oronym was already well established in linguistics as an onomastic...
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    "mountain peak, top of the mountain", V.N. Tatischev believes that this oronym is set to "belt" and associates it with the Turkic verb oralu- "gird". I...
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    Col (category Oronyms)
    A col in geomorphology is the lowest point on a mountain ridge between two peaks. It may also be called a gap or pass. Particularly rugged and forbidding...
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    been identified by three different designations. This name was the first oronym by which the relief was named. The term "black" was probably referable to...
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