KRETEŃSKIE NAZWY WODNE POCHODNE OD TERMINÓW HYDROGRAFICZNYCH

• Authors: Elwira KACZYŃSKA
• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

EN

MODERN CRETAN HYDRONYMS DERIVED FROM HYDROGRAPHIC TERMS In my paper I discussed 590 Cretan water names that derive from Modern Greek hydrographic terms. They represent 12.6% among all the modern hydronyms of the island (4,666 names). As to the structure of the analyzed hydronyms, we can distinguish as many as 564 simple names (95,6%), 19 compounds (3,2%) and 7 elliptical forms (1,2%). It is worth emphasizing that numerous Cretan water names derived from hydrographic terms appear in the plural (113 simple names, i.e., 20.2%). Such a high frequency of the plural forms seems a characteristic feature of the Cretan hydronymy.

Keywords

EN

Modern Greek river names; hydrographic appellatives; Modern Greek language; Cretan dialect

• Publisher: Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk
• Journal: Onomastica
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 58
• Pages: 193-209

Dates

printed

2014-12-02

Contributors

author

Elwira KACZYŃSKA

• Uniwersytet Łódzki, Zakład Jezykoznawstwa i Indoeuropeistyki

Identifiers

ISSN

0078-4648