The article contributes to the identification and linguistic analysis of Hispanic toponymic units Uruguay, presents first attempt classify them. Due historical factors geographical location, Uruguayan corpus over centuries have been formed European (mainly Hispanic) autochthonous (mostly Guarani) layers. author groups names Spanish origin, giving multiple examples, explaining their etymology id...

When it comes to etymology, two methods come mind: 1. Scientific or linguistic etymology and 2. Folk etymology. However, the Polish linguist Marek Stachowski introduced a new term literature: 3.”Perceptual etymology”. explains term, which he coined for first time in his article titled “Perceptual three Turkish culinary terms Croatian Slovene, social inteligencja ‘intelligentsia’” published Stud...