| The study of place-name transfer from one language to another is undertaken by investigating oral and written methods of place-name communication. |
| A specific name serves to restrict or modify the meaning of the place-name. |
| The reply is that the Old English scop may not have regarded it as a place-name. |
| The Afrikaans language shares many place-name elements with Dutch, the European language from which it derives. |
| The City of Chicago is an example of the prepositional place-name, but in common use the preposition and the generic are dropped. |
| 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. |
