Year: 2024 | Month: February | Volume: 11 | Issue: 2 | Pages: 375-391
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20240241
Village Toponymy at Situmurun Geosite: An Anthropolinguistic Study
Lilis Magdalena Manurung1, Robert Sibarani2, Herlina3
1,2,3Universitas Sumatera Utara
Corresponding Author: Lilis Magdalena Manurung
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this research is to describe the toponymic names of villages around Situmurun Geosite based on their naming aspects. To describe the linguistic formation of place names around Situmurun Geosite. The theory used in this research is Sibarani's anthropolinguistic theory. The method used in this research is qualitative method with interactive research model. The results obtained are there are names of places or villages based on aspects of naming, namely in the aspect of embodiment there are 64 names of places or villages, in the aspect of society there are 20 names of places or villages and in the aspect of culture there are 2 names of places or villages. In the formation of place names or villages linguistically, it was found that there are several place names or villages that undergo morphological processes, namely there are affixation processes such as prefixes /mar-/ and /ma-/, confixes /par-an/, /ha-an/, and inserts or infixes /-um/ as well as toponymy or place names in the form of lexicons, phrases and compound words.
Keywords: Anthropolinguistic, Toponyms, Situmurun Geosite
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