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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
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.
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. *
Location names beginning with North H–Nz; Location names beginning with O. Location names beginning with Oa–Od; Location names beginning with Of–Old G; Location names beginning with Old H–Om; Location names beginning with On–Oz; Location names beginning with P. Location names beginning with Pab–Pap; Location names beginning with Par ...
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 ...
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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