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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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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.
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.
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.
A specific name serves to restrict or modify the meaning of the place-name.

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