It is not possible to reconstruct fully the arrangements whereby these honors lists were then made up or even how the names that they contained assumed the order in which we find them.

Otherwise, symbolic names may have previously been assigned to these same index words.

Many of these designs are still under patent, and other types are best known by their original trademarked names.

Having due regard to the magic papyri, in which many of the unintelligible names of the Abrasax-stones reappear, besides directions for making and using gems with similar figures and formulas for magical purposes, it can scarcely be doubted that many of these stones are pagan amulets and instruments of magic.

Lists of these " year names " henceforth became a calendrical system used in most independent Mesopotamian city-states.

The common name " naked lady " used for Amaryllis is also used for other bulbs with a similar growth and flowering pattern ; some of these have their own widely used and accepted common names, such as the resurrection lily ( Lycoris squamigera ).

The Maori had several names for what was the constellation Argo, these included Te Waka-o-Tamarereti, Te Kohi-a-Autahi, and Te Kohi.

Included amongst the ethnic names of the repulsed invaders is the Ekwesh or Eqwesh, whom some have seen as Achaeans, although Egyptian texts specifically mention these Ekwesh to be circumcised ( which does not seem to have been a general practice in the Aegaean at the time ).

As the Eudoses are the Jutes, these names probably refer to localities in Jutland or on the Baltic coast, in which case their inhabitants would be Cimbri or Teutones for Pliny.

All of these names are recorded on a war memorial, an imposing white stone cenotaph, which stands in Oak Hill Park in the south of the town.

Later it was found at Montebras, Creuse, France, and at Hebron in Maine ; and because of slight differences in optical character and chemical composition the names montebrasite and hebronite have been applied to the mineral from these localities.

They admit that these are not genuine names.

However, Bragning is often, like some others of these dynastic names, used in poetry as a general word for ' king ' or ' ruler '.

Some of these names refer to a different kind of knife depending on the region.

Key evidence of Baltic language presence in these regions is found in hydronyms ( names of bodies of water ) in the regions that are characteristically Baltic.

Textual scholars regard these two names as fragments of naming narratives coming from different sources-one being the Jahwist and the other being the Elohist.

Medieval scholars used in the Vulgate the Hebrew rendering of these two verses, and in their eyes the words " Agur " and " Lemuel " were but symbolic names of Solomon.

The incidence of these words as suffixes to place names ( for example, Canterbury, Strasbourg, Luxembourg, Edinburgh, Hamburg, Gothenburg ) usually indicates that they were once fortified settlements.

The numerous Sumerian names in these catalogues suggest that they build on older, but otherwise unattested, Sumerian traditions of the Early Bronze Age.

Where possible, these modern constellations usually share the names of their Graeco-Roman predecessors, such as Orion, Leo or Scorpius.

Some cultures have discerned shapes in these patches and have given names to these " dark cloud constellations.

In some of these subdivisions the Cambrian is divided into three epochs with locally differing names – the Early Cambrian ( Caerfai or Waucoban, mya ), Middle Cambrian ( St Davids or Albertian, mya ) and Furongian ( mya ; also known as Late Cambrian, Merioneth or Croixan ).

Unlike with geographical maps, where many famous projections are known ( such as the Mercator projection ), the calendar projection is a matter of such triviality that no names for these exist in common circulation.

The first of these symbols were intended to be fully universal ; since Latin was the common language of science at that time, they were abbreviations based on the Latin names of metals – Cu comes from Cuprum, Fe comes from Ferrum, Ag from Argentum.

The Ravenna Cosmography includes the last two names ( in slightly different forms, as " Tamaris " and " Uxelis "), and adds several more names which may be settlements in the territory.

The site which nowadays is referred to as Jakarta, has been home to multiple settlements along with their respective names: Sunda Kelapa ( 397 – 1527 ), Jayakarta ( 1527 – 1619 ), Batavia ( 1619 – 1949 ), and Djakarta ( 1949 – 1972 ).

In the late 15th century, European scholars noted the resemblance of the names Hungaria and Yugria, the names of settlements east of the Ural.

The long-term linguistic effect of the Viking settlements in England was threefold: over a thousand Old Norse words eventually became part of Standard English ; numerous places in the East and North-east of England have Danish names, and many English personal names are of Scandinavian origin.

To this day one may find scores of settlements in Poland with names left over from that era, such as: Szewce, Kuchary or Kobylniki.

There are settlements to the west of the dyke that have names that imply they were English by the eighth century, so it may be that in choosing the location of the barrier the Mercians were consciously surrendering some territory to the native Britons

As with many European cities, Mantua has been the inspiration for the names of many other settlements, including:

Undoubtedly, the most ancient Berbers had various names for their land and settlements here, one early Punic-era Berber name being Massyli.

On the territory of the Balaklava district are 34 settlements ( in brackets are the historical, to the renaming of the 1940s, the names of villages ):

This synonimizing of the names is explained by Moshe Sharon who writes that the twin ancient settlements, which he calls Haifa-Sycaminon, gradually expanded into one another, becoming a twin city known by the Greek names Sycaminon or Sycaminos Polis.

Prior to European settlement, Groote Eylandt had been inhabited by Aboriginal people for thousands of years and there had been regular contact between local Aboriginals and Macassan traders, evident in the names of some Groote Eylandt settlements, such as Umbakumba, which can be traced back to a Macassan origin.

He was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he named " The Country of Canadas ", after the Iroquois names for the two big settlements he saw at Stadacona ( Quebec City ) and at Hochelaga ( Montreal Island ).

" I am unable to state with certainty what language the Pelasgians spoke, but we could consider the speech of the Pelasgians who still exist in settlements above Tyrrhenia in the city of Kreston, formerly neighbors to the Dorians who at that time lived in the land now called Thessaliotis ; also the Pelasgians who once lived with the Athenians and then settled Plakia and Skylake in the Hellespont ; and along with those who lived with all the other communities and were once Pelasgian but changed their names.

Both sons have names connected with local settlements: Priola, near Heraclea, and Otrea, on the Ascanian Lake.

Ward names often straddle the named settlements and suburban areas above: their boundaries are fixed, whereas the latter are not.

These are also the names of five of the settlements.

After the Roman conquest, many Roman place names appear, particularly associated with military settlements.

Most old Roman settlements, whether actually inhabited or not, were given the title of chester / caster in Old English ( from the Latin castrum, for ' camp '); the specific names for each may only have little relation to the Roman names ( e. g. modern Chester was actually called Deva by the Romans ).

The two settlements gave their names to the textiles they produced: " Walsham " became the name of a light-weight cloth for summer wear, and " Worsted " a heavier cloth.