Talk:Place name origins

message: This article is grossly misnamed. It is actually a list of place name suffix definitions, not place name origins. The latter would be a list of explanations of proper nouns, telling us what Michigan and Paris mean. --Kaz 15:40, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: True. It is also supposed to be about the United Kingdom but as yet does not mention Goidelic elements, which are the most common in Scotland and N. Ireland. I have renamed the 'Celtic' list to 'Brythonic'. Oaken 19:39, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
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message: This section is over-long and should be replaced by a summary and links to British toponymy etc.  Adresia (talk) 14:38, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Place name origins in Britain and Ireland

message: Is there a list of place name meanings in England? If not it would be interesting to have a sortable list along the lines of:
Name	origin     	position	example 	Meaning                                      	Notes
ley 	Anglo-Saxon	postfix 	Barnsley	Clearing.[1]                                 	If there are a lot of places ending in ley in an area it is an indication that the area was forested in Anglo-Saxon times.[1]
pen 	Brittonic  	prefix  	Pencombe	summit, promontory or hill, possibly tree.[2]	"Names beginning with pen-—particularly distinctive because of the dearth of ps in Old English—are more problematic. Most of them are likely to be from Brittonic pen, 'summit, promontory' (on which see Padel 1985, s.v.),"[2]
wick	Anglo-Saxon	postfix 	Warwick 	Farm.[3]                                     	
What do others think?-- PBS (talk)
: Like List of generic forms in place names in the United Kingdom and Ireland? —Tamfang (talk) 05:57, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes! Thank you. I have placed alinked to in close to the start of the section Place name origins in Britain & Ireland -- PBS (talk) 08:45, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
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