oronymy

Etymology

From oro- + -onymy.

oronymy means The nomenclature of mountains, hills and other geographic rises. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

noun

The nomenclature of mountains, hills and other geographic rises.“The specific features of the Rockies oronymy are: a) the relatively young age of the oronyms, b) the prevalence of the transferred geographical names, c) the scarcity of the (printed) documentation, and finally d) the varied lexical inventory of specific names derived from mountain terminology as compared to other regions of Canada.”