Names and Their Histories: Alphabetically Arranged as a Handbook of Historical Geography and Topographical Nomenclature

afterwards anciently Antonine Itinerary appears Arabic Asia Australia bears the name believed Brazil built burh Canton Cape Cape Colony capital Captain castle Celtic century charter Chronicle coast colony Cook corruption dative dative plural denotes derived discovered district Domesday Dorset Dutch East English Essex etymology explained Flinders ford forest formerly fortress founded French Gaelic genitive German Gloucestershire Graubünden Greek Gulf hence hill honour Indian Irish island Isle Kent King lake land Latin legend Lincolnshire Lord modern name monastery mountain mouth name given name meaning native name North Novaya Zemlya old name Persian personal name places called plain port Portuguese probably province Ptolemy Queensland river rock Roman name Romansch Sanskrit Saxon ship shire signifies Slavonic Somerset South South Wales Spanish Strait suffix supposed takes its name Tasmania Teutonic tribe tún usually village voyage Wales Welsh West whence Worcestershire word Yorkshire Zealand