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the study of place names, or why your hometown's name is a fossil no one bothered to translate.
means the branch of onomastics that studies place names, their origins, meanings, and how they change over time.
from from greek topos meaning place and onyma meaning name, formalized as a discipline in the 19th century when scholars started noticing rivers and mountains kept the same names longer than the people who named them.
colonial layersmost cities have names from at least three languages stacked
rivers persistriver names often outlast the civilizations that gave them
mistranslation classiccanada may derive from a huron word for village