limnonym
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
limnonym (plural limnonyms)
- (very rare) The toponym of a lake.
- 2015, Tom Eriksson, Juha Janhunen, “On the limnonyms Khövsgöl and Kosogol and their ethnic implications”, in Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia, number 2, page 89:
- Importantly, however, the final *b in *sub 'water' is represented as (*)g [ɣ] in all the Turkic languages of the region, which is why it is unlikely that the Mongolian shape of the limnonym could derive from these languages […]
Translations[edit]
toponym of a lake
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