choronym

English

Etymology

choro- +‎ -nym

Noun

choronym (plural choronyms)

1. A type of toponym representing the name of a region, country or any other territory.
   • 1996, Adrian Room, An Alphabetical Guide to the Language of Name Studies‎^[1]:

     Choronym (Gk. khôra, “place,” “land," "country" + -onym). A type of toponym, as the name of any country, territory, region, district or the like. Ex. America, United States, Scotland, Armenia, Texas, Siberia, Rocky Mountains, Yellowstone National Park, Provence, Sicily, Antarctica.

   • 2018, Oleg Rustemov, Crimean Toponyms in the Court Registers of the 17th–18th Centuries and the Issue of the Crimean Tatars' Tribal Composition‎^[2]:

     there are toponyms such as Salğır – the name of a river – and Qanglı (probably the name of the village, but it may be an oronym, or even a choronym).

Translations

regional toponym

• Catalan: corònim (ca) m
• French: choronyme (fr) m
• German: Choronym (de) n
• Italian: coronimo m
• Portuguese: corónimo m (Portugal), corônimo m (Brazil)
• Ukrainian: хоро́нім m (xorónim)

name associated with a medieval clan

• Chinese: 郡望 (zh) (jùnwàng)

See also

• ethnonym