1.3 The correlation between Uzbek and English scientists on toponyms
It is well recognized that data analysis in the subject of toponymy is not confined to linguistics, but also necessitates collaboration amongst disciplines such as history, geography, folklore, ethnography, psychology, and philosophy. The defending candidate's efforts on Uzbek toponymy, in particular, have been instrumental in clarifying some toponymic names in the Kashkadarya region (T.Nafasov, T.Enazarov, O.Begimov) and Surkhandarya region (Y.Khojamberdiev, H.Kholmominov). However, Uzbek linguistics has yet to comment on the names of religious places in these localities, their history of origin, or linguistic characteristics. Naturally, the classification of theotoponyms must be passed on in this regard.
Most of the Uzbek scientists investigated toponyms according to their choronological points. For instance, they studied place names by linking them to a specific period and event.
The Chirchik River, the largest hydronym in the Tashkent oasis, is called "Chir suyi" by Babur in "Boburnoma": "My lord, Sultan Ahmad, drew a line against the Mongols in Tashkent, and Chir Suinikim, Tashkent had two poetic paths, and he was wounded on the bank of the river". The work "Boburnoma" proves that in his time Bobur had a serious responsibility and scientific attitude to toponymy, which has become a broad field of study of linguistics today. Besides that Sarmat, Sirak (Shirak), Tokhar, Alan, Mitan are a reflection of the names of ancient peoples and tribes that lived in different periods in Oika. There are so many toponyms in every country, province, every district, city, and even village.
Also toponyms also changed under the influence of Arabs, Mongols, Turkic peoples, Russia and other colonial periods. For example, in the "List" of 1899 of the Russian military scientist NF Sitnyakovsky, only in the Bukhara part of the Zarafshan valley Balandrabot, Beshrabot, Yettimhot, Jarmbot, Deganrabot, Kaltarabot, Kattambot, Oltirabot, Oqmbot, foshrabot, Chamgimbot, Chonrabot, Chukurrabot, Qoshrabot, Rabot, Rabotio'zbek, Rabotimulla, Raboii Yusuf, Navmbot, more than 160 villages, such as Yangirahot, have also been recorded, as well as several dozen canals bearing the names of these villages.
There are also names in Uzbekistan that appeared before the Arabs. For example, a number of names mentioned in Narshahi's book "History of Bukhara" are still found around Bukhara today. Ancient canals and villages such as Shopurkon, Karmana, Gijduvan, Ishtikhon are among them. The arrival of the Mongols complicated the toponymy of Central Asia - Bultigur, Darkhan, Norm, Norinkol, Norinkapa, Shiherti are Mongolian names. Interestingly, the stream called Norinkol is also found in N.F. Sitnyakovsky's "List". Mongolian terms such as Dovan, Kotal, Tugai, Shiber, Kapchigay are from the lexicon of the languages of the Central Asian Turkic people and has a strong place in toponymy.
English scientists, on the other hand, focused more on geographical location, climate, and topography. Kenneth Cameron’s “English Place Names” which gives a toponymic description of the regions of England, revealing important linguistic and non-linguistic factors of their origins.
Eddison William, in his pamphlet “Understanding English Place-names” made the semantic aspects of English toponyms as his object of analysis, and it should be noted that the scholar also drew attention to the history of the origin of toponyms.
William Alexander's monograph "Names of places in Aberdeenshire" developed a description and classification of local toponyms of place names belonging to the Aberdeenshire region. But this classification is not completed enough.
Also, it is noteworthy to state a Dictionary of British Place-Names by British scholar David Mills. In this dictionary, the author gives an alphabetical explanation of British toponyms from the earliest times to the present, which is one of the largest toponymic dictionaries in Britain and contains more than 17,000 toponymic units. In addition, in this dictionary some common elements of place names in Britain are given in the form of a glossary.
According to the American scientist George R. Stewart, “Toponyms are well-known names that mean the naming of geographical objects. Toponymy is studied by the science of toponymy. In his view, archaisms and dialectisms are preserved in toponyms, especially in hydronyms. In any case at the heart of every toponym, whether it is dialectism or archaism, there is something that in a sense belongs to the nation, the people who lived there. It is safe to say that this is a peculiar feature of toponyms.
Similarities of Uzbek and English scientists on toponyms are both of them tried to explain their origin and etymology in different way such a unique and unusual. People express a natural phenomenon by a geographical term, and, consequently, geographical terms are common in the composition of geographical names. Such terms are the basis of toponymy, that is, an integral part of complex geographical names.
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