"hydronymy" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "hydro- + -onymy",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hydronymies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1957, Scottish Studies - Volumes 1-2, page 239",
          "text": "As references to foreign hydronymies have shown, this semantic structure and development is not confined to Scotland or to the British Isles.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Jan Gijsbert Pieter Best, Manny M. W. De Vries, Thracians and Mycenaeans",
          "text": "In hydronymy there are many pairs of river names such as Eau Blanche/Eau Noire in France, Blanc Ruxel/Noir Ruisseau in the Vosges, France, Beli Iskdr/Cerni Iskdr in Bulgaria, Crisul Alb/Crisul Negru in Romania.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Helmut Birkhan, Hannes Tauber, Kelten-Einfälle an der Donau",
          "text": "Hydronymy marks the most conservative feature of toponomastics. By hydronymy earlier strata of a population might be identified and the movements of prehistoric peoples can be observed assessing the spread of the hydronymy associated with them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The naming of bodies of water such as rivers and lakes."
      ],
      "id": "en-hydronymy-en-noun-5ZJYn2W9",
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        [
          "naming",
          "name"
        ],
        [
          "bodies",
          "body"
        ],
        [
          "water",
          "water"
        ],
        [
          "river",
          "river"
        ],
        [
          "lake",
          "lake"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
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          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "naming of water bodies",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "hydronymika"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "ydronymía",
          "sense": "naming of water bodies",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "υδρονυμία"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hydronymy"
}

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  ],
  "etymology_text": "hydro- + -onymy",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hydronymies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English terms suffixed with -onymy",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1957, Scottish Studies - Volumes 1-2, page 239",
          "text": "As references to foreign hydronymies have shown, this semantic structure and development is not confined to Scotland or to the British Isles.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989, Jan Gijsbert Pieter Best, Manny M. W. De Vries, Thracians and Mycenaeans",
          "text": "In hydronymy there are many pairs of river names such as Eau Blanche/Eau Noire in France, Blanc Ruxel/Noir Ruisseau in the Vosges, France, Beli Iskdr/Cerni Iskdr in Bulgaria, Crisul Alb/Crisul Negru in Romania.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Helmut Birkhan, Hannes Tauber, Kelten-Einfälle an der Donau",
          "text": "Hydronymy marks the most conservative feature of toponomastics. By hydronymy earlier strata of a population might be identified and the movements of prehistoric peoples can be observed assessing the spread of the hydronymy associated with them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The naming of bodies of water such as rivers and lakes."
      ],
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        [
          "naming",
          "name"
        ],
        [
          "bodies",
          "body"
        ],
        [
          "water",
          "water"
        ],
        [
          "river",
          "river"
        ],
        [
          "lake",
          "lake"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "naming of water bodies",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "hydronymika"
    },
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      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "ydronymía",
      "sense": "naming of water bodies",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "υδρονυμία"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hydronymy"
}