Fromplace +name .
placename (plural placenames )
Thename of aplace ;aword orphrase which indicates a particularlocation orregion .
Synonyms: toponym ,nomen loci ,geographic name ,geographical name
2012 ,Nick Thieberger,The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Fieldwork ,page401 :With a complex site, different site elements may not be terminologically distinguished, or else a generic term may be optionally added to theplacename to distinguish a site element, such as a hill, well, or claypan at the location.
the name of a place
—see also toponym
Armenian:տեղանուն (hy) ( teġanun )
Bashkir:топоним ( toponim ) ,ер-һыу атамаһы ( yer-hıw atamahı )
Bulgarian:географско наименование n ( geografsko naimenovanie )
Catalan:topònim (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin:Địa danh (zh) ( dìmíng )
Danish:stednavn (da) n
Dutch:plaatsnaam (nl) c
Estonian:kohanimi
Faroese:staðarnavn n
Finnish:paikannimi (fi)
French:toponyme (fr) m
German:Ortsname (de) m ,Toponym (de) n
Greek:τοπωνύμιο (el) n ( toponýmio ) ,τοπωνυμία (el) f ( toponymía )
Hungarian:( in a narrow sense ) helységnév (hu) ,helynév (hu) ,( in a broad sense ) földrajzi név (hu)
Icelandic:örnefni (is) n ,staðarheiti n
Inari Sami:sajenommâ
Irish:logainm m
Italian:toponimo (it) m
Japanese:Địa danh (ja) ( ちめい, chimei )
Korean:지명 (ko) ( jimyeong )
Latin:nomen loci m
Lithuanian:vietóvardis (lt) ,toponi̇̀mas
Malay:nama tempat
Maori:ingoa wāhi
Northern Sami:báikenamma
Polish:toponim (pl) m
Portuguese:topónimo (pt) m ( Portugal ) ,topônimo (pt) ( Brazil )
Romanian:toponim (ro) n
Russian:топо́ним (ru) m ( topónim )
Scottish Gaelic:ainm àite m
Spanish:topónimo (es) m
Swedish:ortsnamn (sv) n ,ortnamn (sv) n ,toponym (sv) c
Telugu:స్థలనామము ( sthalanāmamu )
Turkish:yer adı (tr)
Udmurt:интыним ( intyńim )
Vietnamese:địa danh (vi)
Walloon:no d' plaece (wa) m
Welsh:enw lle m