ВОПРОСЫ ОНОМАСТИКИ | PROBLEMS OF ONOMASTICS

Elwira Kaczyńska
University of Łódź
Łódź, Poland

Cretan Hydronyms Derived from Settlement Names

Voprosy onomastiki, 2017, Volume 14, Issue 1, pp. 66–86
DOI: 10.15826/vopr_onom.2017.14.1.004

Transl. from Polish by E. D. Bondarenko
Received 9 September 2015

Abstract: The paper discusses 284 Cretan river names, presumably derived from settlement names. This group of hydronyms represents 6.1% among all the modern hydronyms of the island (4 666 names collected by the author from written sources and, at a lesser degree, during fieldwork), its biggest part being attested only from the 20th century. The names studied in this paper were formed either by metonymic transfer of settlement names to bodies of water (134 units) or by morphological derivation (suffixation and, in some cases, regressive derivation) (150 units). To establish the direction of derivation, the author analyses the semantic features of the names and the chronology of their attestation in written sources. As to the morphological structure of the analyzed river names, the author distinguishes 85 simple names (29.9%), 128 compound names (45.1%) and 71 elliptical ones (25%). This enables a structural analysis of the differentiating elements in the compound names and in the elliptical names formed by omitting a hydrograhical term. The morphological structure of some hydronyms allows to retrieve valuable information on lost or decayed settlements of Crete. The author also shows that some items demonstrate the onomastic contuinity in the island from antiquity to the present day.

Key words: Modern Greek language, Cretan dialect, place names, hydronymy, river names, etymology, word formation

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