oronymy

English

Etymology

From oro- +‎ -onymy.

Noun

oronymy (countable and uncountable, plural oronymies)

1. The nomenclature of mountains, hills and other geographic rises.
   • 1969, Proceedings and Transactions: Actes Et Mémoires, page 122:

     The specific features of the Rockies oronymy are: a) the relatively young age of the oronyms, b) the prevalence of the transferred geographical names, c) the scarcity of the (printed) documentation, and finally d) the varied lexical inventory of specific names derived from mountain terminology as compared to other regions of Canada.

   • 1975, George Rippey Stewart, Names on the globe, page 13:

     The counterpart to hydronymy is oronymy, that is, the names of all "uplift" features, such as mountains, hills, capes, promontories, and rocks. Broadly interpreted, hydronymy and oronymy may be made to include almost all feature-names.

   • 1992, Gordon Douglas Young, Mari in retrospect: fifty years of Mari and Mari studies, page 13:

     An ancient survival in Turkish oronymy is quite possible, but I have not found Nihan Dag on the relevant sheets of the 1 :200,000 map of Turkey, which are very detailed in matters of oronymy;

   • 1992, Slovak Review - Volumes 1-2, page 194:

     The structure of oronymies of the west-Slavonic region was suitably supplemented by I. Bihy (Germany) with his paper Zur Namentypologie in ehemaligen altsorbischen Sprachgebiet