The article for the first time classifies urbanonyms by semantic feature, their subclasses are distinguished: godonyms, othelonyms, dromonyms, etc. The use of methods of etymological, structural, component and linguoculturological analysis allows us to establish the factors that determine the phenomenon of eponymy on the example of dromonyms. The obtained results of the study indicate the universality of the processes of desemantization of urbanonyms in languages with different types of structure. At the same time, distinctive features associated with the national and cultural specifics of the studied layer of vocabulary in closely related and distantly related languages are revealed.
desemantization; urbanonym; dromonym; eponymy.