Toponomastics

Toponomastics: the study of place names.

  • Toponymy Simplified

    Toponymy is the study of place-names, including their origins, meanings, usage and types. Toponymic research is based on etymological, historical, and geographical information concerning the place-name in question. A place-name is a word or words used to indicate, denote, or identify a geographic locality such as a town, a city, a river, or a mountain. Toponomastics…

  • Simon Peter: Meaning & Etymology (1)

    “Σίμων/Simon”, “Κηφᾶς/Cephas” and “Πέτρος/Peter” are the New Testament’s three different names for St. Peter. These names have long given rise to numerous scholarly theories and explanations. Here is an anthroponymic approach to the meaning and etymology of Simon, Peter and Cephas.

  • Semitic and Indo-European words

    There is a compelling “lexical similarity” between Semitic and Indo-European languages. These two families, share many cognate words. Some of these words underwent phonetic changes, and became: “camouflaged cognates”, while others are still “explicit cognates”. Cognates are sets of words that have been inherited in direct descent from an etymological ancestor in a common parent…

  • Hebrew: meaning and etymology

    It is generally agreed that (ăpăr), in ancient Hebrew, denotes dust and similar material.

  • Etymology of Qatar

    Littoral north-eastern Arabia had a distinctive culture in Pre-Islamic Arabia. Few centuries before the advent of Islam, this region was predominantly Christian.

  • Identifications of biblical sites

    No biblical sites can be identified with high degree of certainty, only few identification can be considered proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. [01] One reason is that Emperor Constantine, the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity, sent his mother Helena, in 320s, to travel to the Levant to identify Biblical sites. Helena…

  • Swadesh 207 list

    “Swadesh list” is a compilation of basic vocabulary items used in historical linguistics to compare languages and their relatedness.This list was originally compiled to focus on the core vocabulary, the items most likely to persist in a language over the millennia.Swadesh collection of words was also intended to avoid borrowing, based on the idea that…