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hydronym (from
Greek hudor, "water" and
onuma, "name") is a proper name of a body of water.
Hydronymy is the study of hydronyms and of how bodies of water receive their names and how they're transmitted through history. It can apply to rivers, lakes, even oceanic elements.
Like most
toponyms, as linguistic items, hydronyms are very conservative, with successor peoples often retaining the name given a body of water. For example,
Mississippi has passed from
Native Americans to contemporary Americans. Often a given body of water will have several entirely different names given to it by different peoples. For example,
Vltava and Moldau are the
Czech and
German names, respectively, for the same river in
central Europe.
Among the Indo-European languages, hydronyms from various languages can all share a common
etymon: The
Danube,
Don,
Dniester,
Dnieper and
Donets rivers all contain the
Scythian name for "river" (cf.
don "river, water" in modern
Ossetic).
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