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place, small stream Lockinge [53] suffix difficult to distinguish from -ingas without examination of early place-name forms. inver, inner [5] SG mouth of (a river), confluence, a meeting of waters Inverness, Inveraray, Innerleithen: prefix cf. aber. keld ON spring Keld, Threlkeld [54] keth, cheth C wood Penketh, Culcheth [27] suffix cf. W. coed ...
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.
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
Location Locality Coordinates (links to map & photo sources) OS grid reference; Yeabridge: Somerset: Yeading: Hillingdon: Yeadon: Leeds: Yealand Conyers: Lancashire
In some cases the native meanings of a place name are wholly lost, despite guesses and theories, for example Tampa and Oregon. Place names in the United States tend to be more easily traceable to their origins, such as towns simply named after the founder or an important politician of the time, with no alterations except a simple suffix, like ...
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.
Location names beginning with Q. Location names beginning with Q; Location names beginning with R. Location names beginning with Ra–Ray; Location names beginning with Re–Rh; Location names beginning with Ri–Ror; Location names beginning with Ros–Rz; Location names beginning with S. Location names beginning with Saa–Sanc
(Other than Mount E this is the shortest place name in Japan in both Japanese phonology and orthography. All other Japanese place names in this section require at least two kana.) Ub, a town in Serbia; Ui, a town in Republic of Korea; Ug, short name for Tiszaug, Hungary; Ul, a parish in the Oliveira de Azeméis municipality in Portugal