S02: The Naming Process
  

4. Nature of the names

False generics
City names with modified meaning

  • Bloemfontein
  • Rio de Janeiro
  • Blackpool
  • Montevideo
  • Tel Aviv
  • Specifics
  • Generics
  • Possible transfer to other objects (false generics)

Relationship between specific and generic may denote

  • Nature
  • Property
  • Purpose
  • Events

 

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