Metaphorical Extension оf the Body-part Term Теме (‘the Crown of the Head’) in the Geographical Lexis of the Bulgarian Language

As a metaphor describing landforms, the Bulgarian body-part term теме ‘the crown of the head’ is defined in some toponymic monographs with the dialect meanings of ‘the upper part of a crest (of a mountain)’, ‘part of a crest without vegetation’, ‘a mountain peak without vegetation’, in Macedonian as ‘the upper and flat part of a mountain, a flat summit of a mountain’. In explicative and etymology dictionaries none of those meanings is included. Though, the word is used as a landscape term in Bulgarian geographical discourse. In this paper is examined its usage and its current meaning as ‘the upper part of an eminence, especially when rounded or flat’ is defined