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Cognate of C, P and W pen and in some place names, may represent a Gaelicisation of the C and P form. [2] king OE/ON king, tribal leader King's Norton, King's Lynn, [55] Kingston, Kingston Bagpuize, Seven Kings, Kingskerswell, Coningsby [56] kirk [10] ON church Kirkwall, Ormskirk, Colkirk, Falkirk, Kirkstead, Kirkby on Bain, Kirklees, Whitkirk
After the Norman invasion of England in 1066, some Norman French influences can be detected in place-names, notably the simplification of ch to c in Cerne and -cester, and suffixes of names of feudal lords as in Stoke Mandeville, or Church/Kirk/Bishop(s) (prefixed) or Episcopi/Abbot(t)s (rarely prefixed) in many cases of belonging to the church ...
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.
-combe, -coombe, -comb and -cambe – / k ə m /. When stand-alone: always / k uː m / (including in place names such as Castle Combe and Coombe Bissett)-ford – / f ər d /-gh – silent (usually as 'f' in a considerable minority of northern English place names and in Woughton, Milton Keynes)-ham – / ə m /-holm(e) – / h oʊ m /, / ə m ...
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 Wha–Whitc; Location names beginning with White; Location names beginning with Whitf–Why; Location names beginning with Wi–Win; Location names beginning with Wir–Wood
Demonyms ending in -ese are the same in the singular and plural forms. The ending -man has feminine equivalent -woman (e.g. an Irishman and a Scotswoman ). The French terminations -ois / ais serve as both the singular and plural masculine ; adding 'e' ( -oise / aise ) makes them singular feminine; 'es' ( -oises / aises ) makes them plural feminine.
This is a list of towns and villages in the ceremonial county of Cornwall, United Kingdom.The ceremonial county includes the unitary authorities of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
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.