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Many place-name adjectives and many demonyms refer also to various other things, sometimes with and sometimes without one or more additional words. (Sometimes, the use of one or more additional words is optional.) Notable examples are cheeses, cat breeds, dog breeds, and horse breeds. (See List of words derived from toponyms.)
Fucking, Austria.The village was renamed on 1 January 2021 to "Fugging" [1] Hell, Norway.The hillside sign is visible in the background in the left corner. Place names considered unusual can include those which are also offensive words, inadvertently humorous (especially if mispronounced) or highly charged words, [2] as well as place names of unorthodox spelling and pronunciation, including ...
An island in the Ellös part of Sweden, the name looks like it translates to people that aren't very nice on that island. Just "give us 10 minutes, we'll give you an ass." Assmannshausen: A town in Germany. Funny that it means "Ass man's houses" Assur: Please, please please don't move the "ur" to the front. Asylum: A township in Pennsylvania. Aš
Island Barra Head: Beàrnaraigh Gaelic translation of the Old Norse name which meant 'Bjorn's Island' Island Barrhead: Ceann a' Bharra City Bearsden: Cille Phàdraig Ùr New Kilpatrick City Beauly: A' Mhanachainn The monastery City Beinn a' Ghlò: Beinn a' Ghlò Hill of the Veil or Mist Mountain Beinn an Lochain: Beinn an Lochain Mountain of ...
First reference gives the word as the local pronunciation of go out; the second as "A water-pipe under the ground. A sewer. A flood-gate, through which the marsh-water runs from the reens into the sea." Reen is a Somerset word, not used in the Fens. Gout appears to be cognate with the French égout, "sewer". Though the modern mind associates ...
Alexandra Grablewski/Getty Images. 1. Ellis. After Ellis Island, once the nation’s busiest immigration processing center. Give him an early start on NYC history with a name that symbolizes hope ...
Double placenames prominently feature the placenames of two or more constituents in double-barrelled form rather than invent a new name. This is often out of consideration for local sensitivities, since the smaller entity may resent its takeover, and may demand its symbolic perpetuation within an amalgamated name so as to propagate the impression of a merger between equals.
This is a list of places with reduplication in their names, often as a result of the grammatical rules of the languages from which the names are derived. Duplicated names from the indigenous languages of Australia , Chile and New Zealand are listed separately and excluded from this page.