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What is a placename?

What is a placename? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The name of a place; a word or phrase which indicates a particular location or region.
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One interpretation of the placename is that it means 'green river' as in the Welsh river named Irfon.
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In a referendum held earlier today, its residents voted overwhelming to readopt its English name and save it from the imposition of the Irish placename, An Daingean.
Scotia is a Latin placename derived from Scoti, a Latin name for the Gaels.
The change to the shorter spelling appears to have originated in the Donald Map of 1774, a document with a noticeable number of placename errors.
The placename may reflect worship of Thor there by Danes during the Viking Age rather than by Angles during the Roman Iron Age.

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