Names and Their Histories: A Handbook of Historical Geography and Topographical Nomenclature

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