Browse Submitted Place Names

This is a list of submitted place names in which the person who added the name is UncleJay.
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Chartreux (Settlement) French
A village in Dauphine, France, named from words meaning "Battle King" (location of the Carthusian Monastery on Chartreuse Mountain)
Dorset (Political Subdivision) English
Derived from a reduced form of Dornwaraceaster (an archaic form of Dorchester) combined with the Old English suffix -sæte "residents, dwellers"... [more]
Greenwich (Political Subdivision & Settlement) English
Means "green harbour, green settlement", derived from Old English grene "green" and wic, which can mean both "village, town" and "bay, inlet".
Guantanamo (Political Subdivision & Settlement) English
From Spanish Guantánamo.
Kahoolawe (Island) English, Hawaiian (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Kaho’olawe, derived from Hawaiian ka "the" and ho’olawe "to subtract, erode"... [more]
Mosul (Settlement) English
Ultimately derived from Arabic الموصل (al-mawsil) meaning "the linking point, the junction" in reference to a bridge and ford over the Tigris river... [more]
Nagasaki (Political Subdivision & Settlement) Japanese
From Japanese 長 (naga) meaning "long" and 崎 (saki) meaning "cape". This is the name of a city in Japan, as well as the prefecture in which the city is located.
Olean (Settlement) Biblical Latin
derived from a word that means "Oil"
Plym (River) Cornish
"Plum Tree"
Pomerania (Region) Medieval Slavic
The name "Pomerania" comes from the Slavic words meaning "by" or "along" and one meaning "sea". So, "Pomerania" essentially means "land by the sea". ... [more]
Therasia (Island) Greek
Western island of Santorini (a.k.a. Thera), all my 'research' ties it to the given name Theresa (which is also related to words that mean "Summer" and/or "Harvest.")
Uvalde (Settlement) Spanish
named after Juan de Ugalde, governor of Coahuila (a part of Texas).... [more]