This work present a research about the toponymy, a subject-matter of the linguistic area
that has as object of study the Toponyms, meaning the names designations for a place or
geographies accidents. In this way, the work has as objective to analyze and to reflect
about of the Toponyms from indigenous people (Tupi) which give names for places such
as communities, extensions, farms and igarapés of the municipality of Inhangapi-PA,
located in the mesoregion northeast of Pará. We intend, from there, to describe the
etymology of toponyms, from the etymological dictionaries of Bueno (1998), Sampaio
(1987), Tibiriçá (1984, 1985) end Cunha (1998); to analyze your morphological structure,
identifying them as simple, simple hybrid, compound end compound hybrid; ascertain the
changes morphologic end phonetic of designative; and classify them according to the
taxonomic model developed by Dick (1990). The Methodology used the following steps:
bibliographic survey, collect, selection and analysis of data, which were taken out from the
map of the municipality provided by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics -
IBGE. For the concretiztion of this work, we rely on the theoretical and methodological
assumptions developed by Dick (1990), as well as other authors who have also developed
their studies in the area of Toponymy, such as Carvalhinhos (2003, 2008), Carvalho
(2003, 2010), Isquerdo (2008) and Andrade (2006, 2010). The results obtained in this
analysis show that, when dealing with the morphological structure, most toponyms
present a simple structure. Regarding the taxonomic classification, the predominance of
the Taxi Phytotoponym, which includes the toponyms of vegetal provenance, was
evidenced. Thereby, we verified that the characteristics referring to the flora were the
motivational causes that most influenced the denominator in the process of naming the
localities which are part of the municipality in focus.
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