hodonym

English

From Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós, “road”) + ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name”), equivalent to hodo- +‎ -onym.

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hodonym (plural hodonyms)

Alternative form of odonym.
- 2021 November 30, Anastasia Romanova, “Political Dynamics of Urban Hodonyms: A Case of Chisinau, Moldova”, in Urbana‎^[1], pages 133, 137:
  Our study researches the role that hodonyms play in forming cultural and collective identity and awareness in the city of Chisinau (Kishinev), capital of Moldova, ex-Soviet Republic, during the period 1989 till present. […] The cases are opposite when the change of the hodonym does not lead to a change in semantics.