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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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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.
Wikipedia has a fuller, highly amusing list of counterintuitive placename pronunciations.
One interpretation of the placename is that it means 'green river' as in the Welsh river named Irfon.
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.
Scotia is a Latin placename derived from Scoti, a Latin name for the Gaels.
In the meantime, wood was more likely to be seen as a word in an ancient placename than on the ground.

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