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• Attribute names
• Names of cardinal directions
• Names of soil or vegetation characteristics
• Names to commemorate events
• Names that commemorate other places
• Names to commemorate people
• Names with religious overtones
• Names to stake claims

Names mostly start as descriptive names

• So first names mostly are transparent
  
  
• Later, because knowledge of the (initial) language disappears, they may become opaque

Home
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Selfstudy
:
The naming process
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Contents
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Intro
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1.We give names
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2.What do
we name?
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3.What do
we name for?
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4.Nature of names
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5.What is expressed?
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6.Name
types
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7.Place names research
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8.Sea name categories
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9.Sea naming period