Tag: toponymy

• -ton, -by, llan- and bally-: what your town’s name is made of

  

  I tagged 105,532 place names in Britain and Ireland by the English, Norse, Latin, Welsh and Gaelic words inside them, and checked Irish spellings against their official Irish forms. Kil- is a wood far more often than you might think.

  Tristan Hotham

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