Words similar to place-name

Example sentences for: place-name

How can you use “place-name” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

' Dunkling and Gosling and Hanks and Hodges, on the other hand, take such names back to their own origin, often in a place-name.
Other notables in this necessarily brief catalogue of American toponymists include Henry Gannett, working around the turn of the century, who compiled several state gazetteers and a still influential study on the origin of U.S. place names; H. L. Mencken, with several seminal chapters in his American Language (1936); and Kelsie Harder, whose Illustrated Dictionary of Place Names: United States and Canada (1976) remains the most reliable resource for place-name origins.
I have read that toponymy, gazetteers, and place-name surveys receive more formal attention in the U.K. and Europe.)
' My further point is that to be totally successful, a dictionary of this kind requires far more than the academic skills of a place-name specialist.
He will have had no need to consult the Introduction to discover that Tætel's name is preceded by *because it is “inferred from comparative [place-name] evidence and postulated to occur.”