Schneider, Thomas Franz; Kistler, Simon (2019). River Names and their Meanings. An etymological overview. In: Muhar, Susanna; Muhar, Andreas; Egger, Gregory; Siegrist, Dominik (eds.) Rivers of the Alps. Diversity in Nature and Culture (pp. 22-35). Bern: Haupt Verlag
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)Take any map to hand and you will see that every river in the Alps, every brook no matter how small, has its own name. Each stream is considered an individual that is different from all other ones. While some of the peaks in the Alps were not named until relatively recently, many river names go back to the earliest history of human settlement in the Alpine sphere. This chapter will look at the genesis of these appellations and what we can learn from them today.
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Book Section (Book Chapter) |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of Germanic Languages |
UniBE Contributor: |
Schneider, Thomas, Kistler, Simon Peter |
Subjects: |
400 Language > 430 German & related languages 800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism > 830 German & related literatures 400 Language > 420 English & Old English languages |
ISBN: |
978-3-258-08117-5 |
Publisher: |
Haupt Verlag |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Thomas Schneider |
Date Deposited: |
18 Mar 2021 14:05 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:49 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Onomastics, River names |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/153810 |
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