Citations:astronym

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English citations of astronym

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  • 1995 — Qingxia Dai, "The variation of free morphemes in compound words in Jinghpo", published in Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, Volume 18.1, page 144
    [] although the concept of this astronym may have been of foreign origin, the constellation was named with the local word.
  • 1999 — D. Kolev, A. Kaloyanov, V. Koleva, "Pleiades in the Bulgarian folk culture", published in Actes de la Vème conférence annuelle de la SEAC: Gdańsk 1997, page 191
    The Bulgarian tradition attributes the Pleiades astronym "Haidouks" mainly to the Big Dipper, whose most popular folk name is "the Wain" []
  • 2013 — David W. Pankenier, Astrology and Cosmology in Early China, pages 186-188
    [] it also occurs as a “clan sign,” which may have possessed a kind of heraldic significance (Figure 5.8c) in addition to being an astronym and possibly a toponym.
  • 2017 — M.G. Boutet, Celtic Astrology from the Druids to the Middle Ages, page 49
    However, if some of the astronyms found in Cormac's Glossary are truly Gaelic, many of these names are Latin borrowings.