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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.
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 ...
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
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; Yaddlethorpe: North Lincolnshire: Yafford: Isle of Wight: Yafforth: North Yorkshire
In general, the Old English and Norse place-names tend to be rather mundane in origin, the most common types being [personal name + settlement/farm/place] or [type of farm + farm/settlement]; most names ending in wich, ton, ham, by, thorpe, stoke/stock are of these types.
Location Locality Coordinates (links to map & photo sources) OS grid reference; Jackfield: Shropshire: Jack Green: Lancashire: Jack Hayes: Staffordshire: Jack-in-the-Green
Marmarth, North Dakota — MARgaret MARTHa Fitch, very young granddaughter of A. J. Ealing, railroad president [32] Mesena, Georgia — coined by Dr. J. F. Hamilton, using the initial letters of the first names of his six daughters (names unknown) [7] Milo, Oklahoma — initials of four daughters of J. W. Johnson (names unknown) [57]