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The place type in the list for Scotland records all inhabited areas as City. According to British government definitions, there are only eight Scottish cities; [1] they are Aberdeen, Dundee, Dunfermline, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Perth and Stirling.
The Celtic toponymy of Galicia is the whole of the ancient or modern place, river, or mountain names which were originated inside a Celtic language, and thus have Celtic etymology, and which are or were located inside the limits of modern Galicia. According to Churchin (2008), 40% of the toponyms are possibly Celtic, close to the numbers of Non ...
Celtic toponymy is the study of place names wholly or partially of Celtic origin. These names are found throughout continental Europe, Britain , Ireland , Anatolia and, latterly, through various other parts of the globe not originally occupied by Celts .
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 .
The Celtic word *kaitos is one of the Celtic words appearing most widely in British place-names, and those names are correspondingly important to understanding the phonological history of the Brittonic languages, and how Brittonic words have been borrowed into English and Gaelic.
Very little is known about this language, Ligurian (mainly place names and personal names remain) which is generally believed to have been Celtic or Para-Celtic; [40] [41] (i.e. an Indo-European language branch not Celtic but more closely related to Celtic). They spoke ancient Ligurian.
«Predial place names with -acum likely of Gallo-Latin origin»; «derived from names of Celtic origin with installations which may be even recent and therefore of modest historical interest». [2] The place names in the first group are names that document pre-Roman Celtic settlements, especially Gaulish, or foundations not before the Roman period.
Nearly every place-name in the Northern Isles has Norse roots (see Norn language and Scandinavian toponymy), [2] as do many in the Western Isles and along the coasts of the mainland. In the highlands , the names are primarily from Scottish Gaelic , with emphasis on natural features; elements such as Glen - (Gaelic: Gleann , valley) and Inver ...