Hamill Kenny
Biographic Data
| ID | 5382586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hamill Kenny |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hamill |
| FAMILY NAME | Kenny |
| SIGNATURE | KENNY H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Elizabeth City Pasquotank Public Schools |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1940 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Free Will, Determinism, and The Names of Places
If there had not been a George Washington (1732-1799) there would today be no Washington, D.C. And if there had not been a Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) there would today be no Columbus, Ohio. If the idealism of William Penn (1644-1718) and the friendliness of the Quakers had not prevailed in the early history of Pennsylvania, there would not now be the historic city of Philadelphia. These causative, self-evident conclusions will explain to th…
Place-Names and Dialects
Place-Names from Surnames
GAZETTEERSof an old region like 1\JIaryland (chartered in 1632) present the researcher with an excess of place-names derived from surnames. Though he may not necessarily know the local history of these names, a casual survey will show him that, of the 3,183 entries in Gaz. Md. 1904,2 1,731 (54 per cent) are probably derived from surnames. If he looks more critically, weighing in each case the possibility of ambiguity, he will see that of these 1,…
Place-Names on the Moon
SINCE 1957, when the International Geophysical Year began, the moon's place-names have, to some degree, been in the news. 1 Perhaps the first example of such publicity occurred in N0vember 1958,2 when newspapers mentioned ALPHONSE, the moon crater where, so Soviet Dr. N
A Dictionary of Indian Place Names in Maryland
Settling Laurel's Business
ISHOULD LIKE TO CALL the attention of United States place name students to the possibility that laurel in Laurel Hill, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, is not from the North American mountain laurel but (by folk etymology) from (1) either Dela"rare lawi or Shawnee liiwi, each a reflex of the Proto-Algonquian stem *8iiwi 'middle,' or (2) either Delaware lawi 1 or Shawnee laawi (Voegelin), each a reflex of the Proto-Algonquian stem *liiwi 'far,' 'to…
The Founders of Amerindian Linguistics
Algonquian Names
Cheat River and the 'Horn Papers
The Synthetic Place Name in West Virginia
F OR THE purpose of the present study and from the particular standpoint of West Virginia, a synthetic place name is a name that has been formed by combining syllables or smaller parts of other names and words, exclusive of the juxtaposition of an adjective and noun, exclusive of the reversal or permutation of the letters, and exclusive of combination with standard place-name suffixes. Accoville1 is not a true synthetic name, therefore, owing to …
The Synthetic Place Name in West Virginia
F OR THE purpose of the present study and from the particular standpoint of West Virginia, a synthetic place name is a name that has been formed by combining syllables or smaller parts of other names and words, exclusive of the juxtaposition of an adjective and noun, exclusive of the reversal or permutation of the letters, and exclusive of combination with standard place-name suffixes. Accoville1 is not a true synthetic name, therefore, owing to …
The Synthetic Place Name in West Virginia
F OR THE purpose of the present study and from the particular standpoint of West Virginia, a synthetic place name is a name that has been formed by combining syllables or smaller parts of other names and words, exclusive of the juxtaposition of an adjective and noun, exclusive of the reversal or permutation of the letters, and exclusive of combination with standard place-name suffixes. Accoville1 is not a true synthetic name, therefore, owing to …
Cheat River and the 'Horn Papers
Algonquian Names
The Founders of Amerindian Linguistics
Settling Laurel's Business
ISHOULD LIKE TO CALL the attention of United States place name students to the possibility that laurel in Laurel Hill, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, is not from the North American mountain laurel but (by folk etymology) from (1) either Dela"rare lawi or Shawnee liiwi, each a reflex of the Proto-Algonquian stem *8iiwi 'middle,' or (2) either Delaware lawi 1 or Shawnee laawi (Voegelin), each a reflex of the Proto-Algonquian stem *liiwi 'far,' 'to…
A Dictionary of Indian Place Names in Maryland
Place-Names on the Moon
SINCE 1957, when the International Geophysical Year began, the moon's place-names have, to some degree, been in the news. 1 Perhaps the first example of such publicity occurred in N0vember 1958,2 when newspapers mentioned ALPHONSE, the moon crater where, so Soviet Dr. N
Place-Names from Surnames
GAZETTEERSof an old region like 1\JIaryland (chartered in 1632) present the researcher with an excess of place-names derived from surnames. Though he may not necessarily know the local history of these names, a casual survey will show him that, of the 3,183 entries in Gaz. Md. 1904,2 1,731 (54 per cent) are probably derived from surnames. If he looks more critically, weighing in each case the possibility of ambiguity, he will see that of these 1,…
Place-Names and Dialects
Free Will, Determinism, and The Names of Places
If there had not been a George Washington (1732-1799) there would today be no Washington, D.C. And if there had not been a Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) there would today be no Columbus, Ohio. If the idealism of William Penn (1644-1718) and the friendliness of the Quakers had not prevailed in the early history of Pennsylvania, there would not now be the historic city of Philadelphia. These causative, self-evident conclusions will explain to th…
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