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This is a list of cities and towns whose names were officially changed at one or more points in history. It does not include gradual changes in spelling that took place over long periods of time. see also: Geographical renaming, List of names of European cities in different languages, and List of renamed places in the United States
Place-names containing *kaitos are a particularly important source of evidence for understanding the phonological development of the Indo-European diphthong /ai/ in the Brittonic languages; [3]: 324–30 for dialectal variation in the development of /t/ in Brittonic; [4] for the palatal diphthongisation of /eː/ after /k/ in Old English; [5 ...
The general similarity of Old Norse and Old English meant that the place names in the Danelaw were often simply "norsified". For instance, in Askrigg (' ash (tree) ridge') in Yorkshire, the first element is indubitably the Norse asc (pronounced ask), which could easily represent a "norsification" of the Old English element aesc (pronounced ash ...
monastic cell, old church, nook, corner Kilmarnock, Killead, Kilkenny, Kilgetty, Cil-y-coed, Kilburn: prefix anglicised from Cill: kin [5] SG, I head Kincardine, Kinallen: prefix anglicised from Ceann. Cognate of C, P and W pen and in some place names, may represent a Gaelicisation of the C and P form. [2] king OE/ON king, tribal leader
The old name of the island was Mói and it appears in Adam of Bremen's work as Moiland. The name is derived from *mōh with an aja-suffix and the Old English form regularly evolved from it. It is also identified with a battle mentioned in the Poetic Edda, [235] see Móinsheim-, above. Older scholarship interpreted the name as referring to the ...
This list includes European countries and regions that were part of the Roman Empire, or that were given Latin place names in historical references.As a large portion of the latter were only created during the Middle Ages, often based on scholarly etiology, this is not to be confused with a list of the actual names modern regions and settlements bore during the classical era.
The following is a list of place names often used tautologically, plus the languages from which the non-English name elements have come. Tautological place names are systematically generated in languages such as English and Russian, where the type of the feature is systematically added to a name regardless of whether it contains it already.
Following is a list of placenames of Scottish origin which have subsequently been applied to parts of the United States by Scottish emigrants or explorers.. There are some common suffixes.