Structural Types of Settlement Names Referring to the Natural Environment

Abstract

In this paper I study the structural types of settlement names referring to the natural environment and highlight what kind of semantic and lexical- morphological models characterize the particular name structures and when and in what proportion they appeared in sources of the Old Hungarian Era. Among the basic name structural types of settlement names referring to the natural environment, more than half of the name corpus is made up by single-component settlement names without a formant (56 %, e. g. Kökényér