Yanchyshyna Y. Microtoponymy of Central Khemnytskyi Region

The thesis focuses on structural, word-building, lexical, semantic, motivational, and functional peculiarities of microtoponyms in Central Khmelnytskyi region. The study allows to identify the following groups of microtoponyms: 1) microhydronyms which are names of ponds, wells, rivers, sources, moors, streams, lakes, and waterfalls (961; 12.79 %); 2) microoronyms which are names of woodlands, hills, shores, dams, dikes, caves (1 149; 15.3 %); 3) microhoronyms (5 402; 71.91 %) are stratified into a) oikohoronyms (3 175; 58.77 %) which are names of streets, parts of settlements, markets, and squares; b) extraoikohoronyms (967; 17.9 %) which are proper names of fields, cemeteries, pastures; 4) territorionyms (877; 16.24 %) which are in their turn classified into a) sylvonyms (870; 16.11 %) which are names of forests, gardens, natural resorts, parks; b) hydro-territorionyms (7; 0.13 %) which are names of beaches and islands; 5) vionyms (383; 7.1 %) which are proper names of roads, public transport stops, paths, level crossings, and bridges. Overall, the empiric corpus comprises 7 512 microtoponyms.