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This article lists a number of common generic forms in place names in the British Isles, their meanings and some examples of their use. The study of place names is called toponymy ; for a more detailed examination of this subject in relation to British and Irish place names, refer to Toponymy in the United Kingdom and Ireland .
Three-word names for two-part entities are often ambiguous. For example, it may not be clear whether North Rhine-Westphalia is an amalgamation between the north part of the Rhine Province on the one hand and Westphalia on the other (true) or the northern division of some pre-existing place called Rhine-Westphalia (false). While this problem ...
These are lists of place names, i.e. lists of places mainly ordered by place name. Subcategories. This category has the following 12 subcategories, out of 12 total. *
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Location names beginning with V. Location names beginning with V; Location names beginning with W. Location names beginning with Wa–Wal; Location names beginning with Wam–Way; Location names beginning with Wd–West End; Location names beginning with Weste–West L; Location names beginning with West M–Wey; Location names beginning with ...
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.
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. For ...
Ì, Scottish Gaelic name for island of Iona, Scotland (also called Ì Chaluim Chille) L, two lakes in Nebraska both named for their right-angled shape [3] [4] Ô, a castle near Mortrée, France; O, a river in Devon, England; Ó Street, a street in Terézváros, Budapest, Hungary; O, a river in Toyama, Japan; Ø, a hill in Jutland, Denmark. Ø ...