toponymy

Japanese: toponymy
toponymy

…In the publishing industry, researchers from all over the country have gathered together to edit and publish a huge number of research books, such as the “Nihon Rekishi Chimei Taikei” (Heibonsha). Place-name studies, called Toponomastik or Ortsnamenkunde in German, toponymie in French, and toponymy or toponomy in English, have promoted research into the fundamental meanings and orthography of place names, and developed in European countries from the end of the 19th century. As a supplementary science to history, it has progressed on a par with paleography and linguistics, and has produced remarkable results. …

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…出版関係では《日本歴史地名大系》(平凡社)など,全国的に研究者を結集した膨大な研究書の編集・刊行が行われている。 地名学はドイツ語ではToponomastikまたはOrtsnamenkunde,フランス語ではtoponymie,英語ではtoponymyとかtoponomyというが,地名の原則的な意義や正書法などの研究を推進し,19世紀末からヨーロッパ諸国に発達した。歴史補助学として古文書学,言語学と同等に進歩し,著しい成果をあげている。…

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