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kil, [5] Cil SG, I, W 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 ...
Adjectives ending -ish can be used as collective demonyms (e.g. the English, the Cornish). So can those ending in -ch / -tch (e.g. the French, the Dutch) provided they are pronounced with a 'ch' sound (e.g., the adjective Czech does not qualify). Where an adjective is a link, the link is to the language or dialect of the same name.
Location names beginning with I, J. Location names beginning with Ia–Im; Location names beginning with In–Ir; Location names beginning with Is–Ix; Location names beginning with J; Location names beginning with K. Location names beginning with Ka–Key; Location names beginning with Kib–Kin; Location names beginning with Kip–Kz
Location Locality Coordinates (links to map & photo sources) OS grid reference; Yaddlethorpe: North Lincolnshire: Yafford: Isle of Wight: Yafforth: North Yorkshire
List of adjectival and demonymic forms of place names; List of adjectivals and demonyms of astronomical bodies; List of adjectival and demonymic forms for countries and nations; List of administrative division name changes; List of placenames of Indigenous origin in the Americas; List of renamed places in Angola; List of Arabic place names
Demonyms ending in -ese are the same in the singular and plural forms. The ending -man has feminine equivalent -woman (e.g. an Irishman and a Scotswoman). The French terminations -ois / ais serve as both the singular and plural masculine; adding 'e' (-oise / aise) makes them singular feminine; 'es' (-oises / aises) makes them plural feminine.
Au, name of three municipalities in Germany: Au am Rhein, Au (Breisgau) and Au in der Hallertau; Au, name of almost hundred of villages and hamlets in Germany, mostly in Bavaria: Au (Sieg) and others; Au, a town in the Kankan Region, Guinea; Au, a municipality in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland; Au, a village in the canton of Zürich ...
This is a list of the most common U.S. place names (cities, towns, villages, boroughs and census-designated places [CDP]), with the number of times that name occurs (in parentheses). [1] Some states have more than one occurrence of the same name. Cities with populations over 100,000 are in bold.