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Towards a Spatial Analysis of Toponym Endings

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The target of this article is to define and use a statistical measure to determine endings of place names. The definition of ‘ending’ is based on the occurrence of a certain end-string in a gazetteer. Based on this definition a part of the GeoNames-gazetteer is analysed in respect to detect and rank possible endings. The spatial distributions of the most outstanding endings are presented.

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Notes

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    Translated: the Bishop’s home.

  2. 2.

    Digital access on: www.ortsnamen.ch.

  3. 3.

    Unfortunately, Umlauts such as ü were stored inconsistent, partly as u and partly ue.

  4. 4.

    This is related to sch.

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    A longer list is presented in the appendix of this article.

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  1. Institut für Kartographie und Geoinformatik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hanover, Germany

    Tobias Dahinden

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  1. Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany

    Manfred Buchroithner

  2. Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany

    Nikolas Prechtel

  3. Institute of Cartography, Dresden, Germany

    Dirk Burghardt

Appendix

Appendix

The 150 salient endings evaluated for this article (beside those starting with -en, -er, or –es):

-berg, -spitze, -hausen, -dorf, -weiler, -kreuz, -graben, -heim, -weiher, -kamp, -hauser, -bach, -grub, -elberg, -stein, -reuth, -schlag, -winkl, -acker, -holz, -chberg, -scheid, -hammer, -feld, -neuhof, -werder, -brunn, -nsdorf, -hofen, -stedt, -kopf, -reith, -stadt, -ndberg, -winkel, -tzberg, -haus, -horst, -rnberg, -ingen, -hof, -bauer, -stock, -onberg, -leiten, -ried, -au, -msdorf, -nsberg, -bergen, -gsdorf, -ow, -hutte, -eldorf, -moor, -ssberg, -strass, -garten, -isberg, -undorf, -storf, -indorf, -tsberg, -trup, -itz, -dsberg, -amberg, -wiesen, -hlberg, -spitz, -krug, -heide, -bruck, -moos, -holzen, -lsheim, -brink, -llberg, -steig, -itze, -burg, -schach, -grund, -berge, -muhle, -aubach, -koog, -kogel, -elbach, -schutz, -usen, -wald, -chholz, -bronn, -sgrun, -en, -kanal, -hagen, -hardt, -grat, -statt, -chfeld, -reute, -heid, -tzbach, -hofe, -reit, -iler, -hlag, -thal, -er, -buhel, -muhlen, -lehen, -wiese, -felden, -halden, -inbach, -bichl, -ppach, -bruch, -nfels, -rnbach, -riegel, -eck, -roth, -mmer, -sleben, -imbach, -elhof, -sattel, -ikon, -etten, -aben, -ambach, -buttel, -hafen, -hutten, -ewitz, -oven, -ing, -harte, -ssbach, -hub, -asser, -hlbach, -roda, -acher, -furth, -stall

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Dahinden, T. (2014). Towards a Spatial Analysis of Toponym Endings. In: Buchroithner, M., Prechtel, N., Burghardt, D. (eds) Cartography from Pole to Pole. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32618-9_26

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