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The author analyses some of the names of the Hornád river basin, pointing out their antiquity. Many hydronyms are of Slavonic (or pre-Slavonic) origin and lexical origin of the common Slavonic base is clarified by the comparison of hydronyms which are motivated in the Slovak and other Slavonic languages in the same way. In the article, the author analyses some of the names motivated by vegetation,...
The author of the study deals with the use of metaphor and metonymy in the formation of toponyms. The commonest use in proper nouns is that of resemblance with appellatives known to people from their everyday lives - 'brdo' (harness), 'hreben' (comb), 'sedlo' (saddle), 'nohavice' (trousers), 'noznice' (scissors)… Long distance of the object from the settlement was expressed by people metaphorically,...
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