Locating and relating places named Vide-Poche uncovers a yet unnoticed onomastic archipelago in North America. Nine places known as Vide-Poche span a wide geographic area, suggesting the likelihood of a former generic function. Although use of Vide-Poche as a place name spread along waterways from the St. Lawrence to the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, this practice has only attracted local, narrow or anecdotal attention. The motivation behind each place named Vide-Poche finds partial explanation in a comparative study. The occurrence (ca 1650) of the same place name in Charente, France, hints at an ancient phenomenon. This article investigates the lexicographic context of the toponym and aims at extracting the conditions that determined i...
D\u27Ou Etes-Vous deals with a phenomenon which has always been of interest to me. Not only in Fren...
Pohl Jacques. La Toponymie de la Thiérache . In: Revue Internationale d'Onomastique, 9e année N°3, S...
Chambon Jean-Pierre. Sur l'origine du nom de lieu Sail-sous-Couzan et congénères (département de la ...
The distribution of Vide-Poche hints at its function as a former generic place name. Located in nine...
Some observations about the toponymy of Vallon-Pont-d'Arc (Ardèche). Toponomics is not, as is commo...
French territories in the late eighteenth century, the archipelagos of Mascarene, Seychelles and Cha...
Place names in Quebec stem from three main origins: the native, French and English languages. Along ...
Mulon Marianne. Toponymie de la vigne en Île-de-France aujourd’hui. In: La vigne et les vergers. Act...
Soyer Jacques. Notes de toponymie et d’hydronymie. L'origine du nom de la ville de Romorantin (Loir-...
Toponymy and paremiology : place naming in the proverbs in Provence. Whether we consider proverb co...
Foucault Jules-Albert de. L’élément -hem dans la toponymie du Pas-de-Calais. In: Revue International...
Compared to the toponymy of the majority which is founded on the more solid notion of territory, min...
Gendron Stéphane. Toponymie de la vigne et du vin dans le département de l’Indre. In: La vigne et le...
La médiation toponymique est l’un des ensembles relationnels qui font une terre habitée, ici le Québ...
Casado Pierre. L'apport de la toponymie à l'histoire agraire. Un cas d'espèces : les toponymes faisa...
D\u27Ou Etes-Vous deals with a phenomenon which has always been of interest to me. Not only in Fren...
Pohl Jacques. La Toponymie de la Thiérache . In: Revue Internationale d'Onomastique, 9e année N°3, S...
Chambon Jean-Pierre. Sur l'origine du nom de lieu Sail-sous-Couzan et congénères (département de la ...
The distribution of Vide-Poche hints at its function as a former generic place name. Located in nine...
Some observations about the toponymy of Vallon-Pont-d'Arc (Ardèche). Toponomics is not, as is commo...
French territories in the late eighteenth century, the archipelagos of Mascarene, Seychelles and Cha...
Place names in Quebec stem from three main origins: the native, French and English languages. Along ...
Mulon Marianne. Toponymie de la vigne en Île-de-France aujourd’hui. In: La vigne et les vergers. Act...
Soyer Jacques. Notes de toponymie et d’hydronymie. L'origine du nom de la ville de Romorantin (Loir-...
Toponymy and paremiology : place naming in the proverbs in Provence. Whether we consider proverb co...
Foucault Jules-Albert de. L’élément -hem dans la toponymie du Pas-de-Calais. In: Revue International...
Compared to the toponymy of the majority which is founded on the more solid notion of territory, min...
Gendron Stéphane. Toponymie de la vigne et du vin dans le département de l’Indre. In: La vigne et le...
La médiation toponymique est l’un des ensembles relationnels qui font une terre habitée, ici le Québ...
Casado Pierre. L'apport de la toponymie à l'histoire agraire. Un cas d'espèces : les toponymes faisa...
D\u27Ou Etes-Vous deals with a phenomenon which has always been of interest to me. Not only in Fren...
Pohl Jacques. La Toponymie de la Thiérache . In: Revue Internationale d'Onomastique, 9e année N°3, S...
Chambon Jean-Pierre. Sur l'origine du nom de lieu Sail-sous-Couzan et congénères (département de la ...