English

Noun

geonymy ‎(countable and uncountable, plural geonymies)

1. The nomenclature of place names.
   • 2004, Yong-sik Yi, Shaman Ritual Music in Korea, page 80:

     Among twenty-five female shamans in the Society for the Preservation of Hwanghae Shamsnism, five have family-related names, four of whom are younger than forty-five years old, while twenty have geonymies (see Appendix 2).

   • 2006, Roberto Salinas Price, Homeric Whispers: Intimations of Orthodoxy in the Iliad and Odyssey, ISBN 0910865116:

     As regards Trojan geonymy, more or less 25% (18) geonyms remain intact, given the similarity with the original or in translation (TABLE 1.4).

   • 2013, Hong Yung Lee, Colonial Rule and Social Change in Korea 1910-1945, ISBN 0295804491, page 325:

     Informally she would be known by her social position (new bride, daughterin-law), by teknonymy (Suni's mother), or geonymy (the girl from Pusan).