Abstract
Swat valley is located in the northern part of the province of Khyber
Pukhtunkhwa in Pakistan. The starting point of this article is the
recent publication by the same author of the volume named Toponymy
of the Swat valley. Linguistic archaeology, by the publisher Sang-e
Meel and in the collections of the ACT project and of the ISMEO. This
article deals with a special class of toponyms: the geonyms, the names
of the generic geographic features. In particular, it studies seven
geonyms particularly recurrent in the toponymy of Swat: banda,
dera/dera, deray, dop, kandaw, tangay and tangay. An analysis of their
semantics and etymologies offers evidence of the early presence in the
whole valley of Dardic populations, as also shown by cartography.
Matteo De Chiara. (2020) Geonymy in the toponymy of the Swat valley, Journal of Asian Civilizations, Volume 43, Issue 2.
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