Dangerous Kanji: Hidden Warnings in Japanese Place Names

It is said that some Kanji in place names are actually 'secret codes' left by our ancestors to warn us about natural disasters.

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Archaeoethnologica: PHILIA Nº 11 - 2025

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Japanese Place Names: Same Kanji, Different Pronunciations

In Japan, there are many place names that use the same kanji but are pronounced differently.

#japaneselanguage #kanji #placename #日本橋 #上野 #府中 #国府 #別府 #神戸 #新田 #白木 #中島 #本町 #青木 #漢字 #nihonbashi #nipponbashi #地名　

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#Ülemistejärve (0) #Asum
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Ülemistejärve
See #Ülemiste and #Järve. NB: we’re at the end of the dictionary so it should be clear by now. The lake itself is a #placename and thus #nominative, #Ülemiste #Järv, while this is the #Sub-district and therefore #genitive, and, being
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Marwick suggests this #PlaceName derives from ON Jǫtunn ‘giant’. The same word is in Yettna Geo (Sandwick) & in a Rousay standing stone of which it ‘is said that in the early hours of every New Year’s Day the Yetnasteen takes 2 giant strides down to the nearby loch for a drink!' (Rousay Remembered)

AKA Bay of Moclett. Bothican is a tricky #PlaceName Marwick suggests the #Gaelic word bothagan ‘the huts’, but it remains very much an uncertain etymology.

ON teigr m. ‘strip of field, meadow’ is seen in the Saga #PlaceName Hávarðsteigar, a lost place compounded with the masculine personal name Hávarðr. My favourite potential teigr name though must be Gravity (north & South) in North Ronaldsay, with the 1st element being ON grǫf f. ‘hollow’ (Marwick).

**서울의 어원**

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**The Etymology of Seoul**

#Seoul #Etymology #Seorabeol #Silla #PlaceName #KoreanLanguage #Linguistics

**首尔的词源**

A disaster for #placename studies

Report from Corinna Rayner (Research Support Fund) - Viking Society for Northern Research Corinna recently travelled to Orkney and Edinburgh to study place names. Read about her travels here.

After our @ragnasislands.bsky.social research trip to Orkney in March/April, project member @shroomgirl.bsky.social stayed on to do some more #placename research for her PhD project. vsnr.org/2025/05/09/r...

Gaitnip: a case of ‘synonym substitution’ - Ragna's Islands: A New Saga Geitaberg now Gaitnip (St. Ola) occurs once in the Saga of the Earls of Orkney where we hear in chapter 76 that ‘Borgarr, the son of Jaddvǫr Erlendsdóttir, who lived at Gaitnip… had seen the cargo-ship as it sailed from the south and back south’, with Sveinn Ásleifarson aboard. Sveinn had come ‘to meet Earl ...

Our latest blog on the #OrkneyingaSaga #PlaceName Geitaberg is out! #Orkney blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/ragnasisland...

Pinpointing Paplay... the priests, the parish, the place-name... - Ragna's Islands: A New Saga The place-name Paplay occurs in the Saga of the Earls of Orkney (Orkneyinga saga) on several occasions. In chapter 42 we hear that Gunnhildr, daughter of the late Earl Erlendr who had died in Trondheim, was married off by King Magnús to Kolr Kalason a well-connected Norwegian landowner, and that ‘some properties in the Orkneys ...

Our latest blog looks at the #saga #PlaceName Paplay! Where was it, when was it, and what does it mean?! #Orkney #OrkneyingaSaga blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/ragnasisland...

Scapa…part two… the klif-hanger… - Ragna's Islands: A New Saga In Scapa… part one… we concluded by saying that the name describes an important, traversable, isthmus in close proximity to Kirkwall and that the saga attests to it being a recognisable landing-site used for expeditious access to Kirkwall for assemblies and social gatherings, and for trade (as evidenced by the mention of cargo ships). We ...

It is finally out... 'Scapa…part two… the klif-hanger…' What do we make of the various manuscript forms of this #PlaceName?! Find out in our latest blog!
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グーグルマップ、メキシコ湾を「アメリカ湾」に変更へ トランプ米大統領が米南部沖のメキシコ湾を「アメリカ湾」に改称する大統領令に署名したことを受け、米グーグルはこの名称変更を「グーグルマップ」に反映する。

いつの時代も地図は政治の干渉を受ける。正しい一枚の地図は存在せず、それぞれの立場で地図は動的に変わるべきもの。紙地図ではできなかったけれど、デジタル地図であればそれが可能。INGRESSのキャッチコピーはSFの世界だけではなくなってきた。

「The world around you is not what it seems.」（あなたの周りの世界は、見たままのものとは限らない）

#PlaceName #INGRESS #GoogleMaps #BillionsInōzation #一億総伊能化 #FuruhashiLab

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Archaeoethnologica: In Search of the Celts of Eastern Europe / Em Busca dos Celtas da Europa Oriental

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Archaeoethnologica: In Search of the Celts of Eastern Europe / Em Busca dos Celtas da Europa Oriental

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Archaeoethnologica: In Search of the Celts of Eastern Europe / Em Busca dos Celtas da Europa Oriental

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Archaeoethnologica: In Search of the Celts of Eastern Europe / Em Busca dos Celtas da Europa Oriental

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Archaeoethnologica: In Search of the Celts of Eastern Europe / Em Busca dos Celtas da Europa Oriental

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Archaeoethnologica: Studies about Irish Dindschenchas - Book /Estudos sobre as Dindschenchas Irlandesas - Livro

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