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What is a place-name?

What is a place-name? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Alternative spelling of placename
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A major branch of study within archaeology that draws on archaeological, historical geography, human geography, ecology, anthropology, and place-name studies.
A person will listen to the place-name spoken and then phonetically render the place-name in his or her own language, creating at best a close approximation.
The reply is that the Old English scop may not have regarded it as a place-name.
The City of Chicago is an example of the prepositional place-name, but in common use the preposition and the generic are dropped.
This involves the spoken transfer of a place-name from one language to another.
These are looked up in a gazetteer, a place-name dictionary with over 10m entries, which knows, for example, that the Statue of Liberty is in New York.

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