“An analysis of Village Names in Wiang Kaen district ” 5 village names are analyzed to seek for their linguistic
structures such as the syntax and semantics of word formation. The study reveals that the
word structure of the village names are in 5 different patterns: from one-word names to
five-word names. Regarding to their initial words, the names can be classified into
several semantic groups such as water site, landscape, building structure, direction or position, plant, animal, artificial object, body organ, profession, goodness, descriptive
character, action, quantity and others. Moreover, each semantic field can be further
divided into a number of subfields.