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The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.
The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.
We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.
Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.
Our honourary member Teddy, the Golden Doodle, may not know what #hydronyms means, but he knows it's #LakeOntario today, tomorrow and forever.
You can tell an EU apparatchik, of the French persuasion, crafted this.
#hydronyms
The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.
The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.
We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.
Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.
@MarkJCarney A 400-year-old name describing the water itself will likely outlast any executive order. History tends to keep the words that actually fit the place.
#LakeOntario #GreatLakes #Hydronyms
The last meander of River Siran - before its unison with Indus in Tarbela lake. Siran stars frm glaciers of 14000 ft Musa ka Musalla - passes thru Jabori, Dadar, Shinkiari & picturesque Pakhal Plain. Indeed its jewel of Mansehra
e-Onomastics: #Conference "#Terminology, #onomastics: #society and #time" was held in #Kyrgyzstan https://t.co/6axxYaXse7 restoration of #historical #names (#toponyms and #hydronyms) and unification of controversial issues in terminology were discussed on April 19, 2024
Let's go further, and add the entire area where we find Baltic names for rivers and lakes #hydronyms #urheimat
BREAKING: I demand the immediate withdrawl of Russian troops from the historical sphere of influence of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, including #Belarus and #Ukraine. Russia's westward expansion since the annexation of Novgorod in 1478 is an outrageous provocation. @RussiaMfa
#Hydronyms tend to outlast other #toponyms, even when new #languages and cultures displace earlier ones.
#England, #EastAnglia, #Essex, and #Sussex are named for the #Angles and #Saxons; but #Trent, #Ouse, #Thames, #Severn, and #Avon are older #Celtic and #RomanoBritish names.
#Hydronomastics is the study of #hydronyms, the proper names of bodies of water.
It's a branch of #toponomastics, the study of #toponyms (the proper names of places), which in turn is a branch of #onomastics, the study of #orthonyms (proper names).
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