Grzega’s and Schöner’s view on the topic is that “The goal in onomasiology is to
find the linguistic forms, or the words, that can stand for a given concept/idea/object”
(2007:7). Onomasiology is “the study of designations, where the linguist starts with an
extralinguistic concept and looks for its formal verbalizations.” (Grzega 2012:271)