English

Noun

microtoponymy ‎(uncountable)

1. The nomenclature of small local places such as mountains, fields, or sections of forests.
   • 2007, Peter Golden, ‎Haggai Ben-Shammai, ‎& András Roná-Tas, The World of the Khazars, ISBN 9047421450:

     The Christian chronicler obviously did not “recognize” the Biblical name in the Kievan placename: evidently, the mountain—name Khorevitsa had been deeply rooted in the pre-Christian Kievan microtoponymy;

   • 2013, Joshua Nash, Insular Toponymies: Place-naming on Norfolk Island, South Pacific and Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island, ISBN 9027271879:

     The unofficial status of microtoponymy on Vernon is illustrated by the matter-of-fact, spontaneous, and descriptive nature of such names.

   • 2015, Jonas Schnabel-Le Corre & Betina Löfström, Challenges in Synchronic Toponymy, ISBN 3772084796:

     The field of microtoponymy is concerned with individual or local use of toponyms in a small village or urban quarter, which may also reflect the social relations of their inhabitants.