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  2. Norman toponymy - Wikipedia

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    This element can be written like the French word meaning "man", but is pronounced differently: French (l'homme) versus Norman or (le homme). It is found in place-names such as Le Houlme, Robehomme, Saint-Quentin-sur-le-Homme, and les Échommes. [58] [59] [60]-hus or -hurs from the Old Norse hús or Old English hūs, meaning "house".

  3. Toponymy - Wikipedia

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    The term toponymy comes from Ancient Greek: τόπος / tópos, 'place', and ὄνομα / onoma, 'name'. The Oxford English Dictionary records toponymy (meaning "place name") first appearing in English in 1876. [9] [10] Since then, toponym has come to replace the term place-name in professional discourse among geographers. [1]

  4. Correspondence of Lorraine toponyms in French and German

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    Lorraine's toponymy is not only a back-and-forth between the German and French forms more specific to the last two centuries. It is older, and shows a sensitivity common to all of eastern France where the 'determinant-determined' pair largely dominates while respecting habits and rules that ignore the heritage language.

  5. List of generic forms in place names in the British Isles

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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.

  6. List of words derived from toponyms - Wikipedia

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    gamboge, a yellow artist's pigment — Cambodge, French name for Cambodia; geyser, a hot water spring — Geysir in Iceland; Glasgow kiss, a slang term meaning headbutt — Glasgow, Scotland; Greek, not understandable ("all Greek to me") — Greek language of Greece; Guinea, former British gold coin, and guineafowl — Guinea region of West Africa

  7. Place name origins - Wikipedia

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    Sometimes, however, the place names were changed by new settlers to match pronunciation habits without reference to the original meaning. For example, the Old English name Scipeton ("sheep farm"), which would normally become *Shipton in modern English, instead was altered to Skipton, since Old English sc (pronounced 'sh') was usually cognate ...

  8. Onomastics - Wikipedia

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    Toponymy (or more precisely toponomastics), one of the principal branches of onomastics, is the study of place names. [8] Anthroponomastics is the study of personal names. [9] Literary onomastics is the branch that researches the names in works of literature and other fiction. [10]

  9. List of country-name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    The meaning is "Russian" in the cultural and historic (Old East Slavic: рускъ, ruskʺ; Old Belarusian: руски, ruski; Russian: русский, russkiy) but not national sense (Russian: россиянин, rossiyánin), a distinction sometimes made by translating the name as "White Ruthenia", although "Ruthenian" has other meanings as