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names are used by Celtic peoples.
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ANTRIM (Political Subdivision) IrishCounty in Northern Ireland, meaning 'lone ridge'.
ARMAGH (Political Subdivision) IrishA county in
IRELAND. Means "Macha height", 'macha' was an ancient Irish goddess.
ATHENRY (Settlement) IrishAthenry (Baile Áth an Rí) meaning "Town of the Ford of the King" is a town in County Galway, Ireland, which lies 25 kilometres east of Galway city.
AVALBANE (Settlement) Irish (Anglicized)Anglicized form of Irish
Abhaill Bhán "white orchard". This is or was the name of a township in the civil parish of Clontibret in County Monaghan, Ireland.
BANGLADESH (Country) Bengali, Armenian, Basque, Breton, Bulgarian, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Malay, Mongolian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swahili, Swedish, UzbekFrom Bengali বাংলাদেশ
(Bangladeś) meaning "land of the Bengalis", from the name of the Bengali people and Sanskrit देश
(deśá) meaning "country, kingdom, land, state"...
[more] BEDDGELERT (Settlement) WelshA village in northwest Wales. The name means 'Gelert's grave', from Welsh
bedd, 'grave' &
Gelert, whose identity is a subject of debate....
[more] BETWS-Y-COED (Settlement) WelshA village in rural North-West Wales. The element
betws, in Welsh means 'prayer house'. The
y is the definite article 'the'. The final element
coed means 'trees'. This gives a full name meaning 'prayer house in the forest'...
[more] BRAINT (River) WelshThe name of a small river on Anglesey, an island off the north-west coast of Wales. It is probably a Welsh form of
BRIGANTIA.
BURUNDI (Country) Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, UkrainianThe name of the Country in East Africa. Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a landlocked country in the African Great Lakes region of East Africa, bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and south, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west.
CARDIFF (Settlement) WelshThe capital city of Wales. Cardiff derives from the city's Welsh name
Caerdydd, which in turn was derived from the city's Old Welsh name
Caerdyf (In Welsh
f (v) is often mutated to
dd (th))....
[more] CILL MHANTÁIN (Political Subdivision & Settlement) IrishIrish name for the county of
WICKLOW. Meaning "church of Mantan". It is named after a peer of Saint Patrick. Mantan had his teeth knocked out by Irish pagans, and then he was renamed Mantan, which means "toothless one".
CLADDAGH (Settlement) Irish, EnglishThe name of an ancient village in Ireland, where the tradition of the Claddagh ring developed.
CORK (Settlement & Political Subdivision) IrishA county and city in
IRELAND. Meaning "swamp".
CORNWALL (Political Subdivision & Region) CornishA place next to
DEVON at the bottom of southwestern England. Named due to the old tribal name "Cornwealas" which eventually turned into "Cornwall". Name thought to come from the a Celtic word for "horn" or "headland" and old English "Wealas" which means strangers...
[more] CWM GWAUN (Settlement) WelshCwm Gwaun (English: Gwaun Valley) is a community and valley in north Pembrokeshire, Wales. The name itself is derived from Welsh
cwm "valley" and
gwaun "heath, moor".
CYMRU (Country) WelshFrom Proto-Celtic
kom- meaning "with, together" and
mrogis meaning "region, country, territory". This is the Welsh name for
Wales.
DEMELZA (Settlement) CornishName of a hamlet in Cornwall, sometimes explained as a contraction of Cornish
Dinas Maeldaf "fort of Maeldaf", but more likely derived from Cornish
ty "house" and
malsai "eel".
DERRY (Political Subdivision & Settlement) IrishCity and country in Northern
IRELAND. May mean "oak wood", from 'Daire Coluimb Chille', meaning "The Oak-wood of Saint Columba". Or the name may have been from Proto-Celtic 'calg-ac-os', meaning "possessing a blade" or "possessing a penis".
DONEGAL (Political Subdivision & Settlement) IrishCounty and town in
IRELAND. Meaning "place of foreigners" (i.e. the Vikings). Alternatively, it may mean "land of Conall", a king from the area. Conall means "strong wolf".
DORTMUND (Settlement) English, Basque, Belarusian, Breton, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Frisian, German, Greek, Greenlandic, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Norwegian, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, WelshFirst mentioned in the 9th century AD as
Throtmanni, of uncertain origin and meaning, the form
Dortmunde first appeared in the 13th century. This is the name of a city in western Germany.
DOWN (Political Subdivision) IrishCounty in Northern
IRELAND. From the Irish "Dún ná Lethglas", "dún" means fort.
ELWY (River) WelshThe name of a river in Wales, possibly meaning "second river" from Welsh
ail "a second, another" and the river name suffix
wy.
FALGA (Country) ManxPoetic Manx word for the Isle of Man.
FERMANAGH (Political Subdivision) IrishCounty in Northern
IRELAND. Meaning "men of the country of the lakes".
GALWAY (Settlement & Political Subdivision) IrishCity and county in
IRELAND. Means "fort Gaillimh", named after the
GAILLIMH river that flows through the city.
GRAN CANARIA (Island) Spanish, English, Esperanto, Dutch, Welsh, Breton, Asturian, Aragonese, German, Estonian, Faroese, Galician, Croatian, Italian, Hungarian, Norwegian, Serbo-Croatian, Finnish, Swedish, Turkish, Icelandic, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Scots, SloveneFrom Spanish
gran "grande, great" and
Canaria referring to the
CANARY ISLANDS. Gran Canaria is the third largest and second most populous island of the Canary Islands.
GWALIA (Country) Welsh (Archaic)Gwalia is an archaic Welsh name for "Wales". It derives from the Medieval Latin
Wallia, which in turn is a Latinisation of the English 'Wales'. Although never as widely used as Cymru, Gwalia was once popular as a poetic name for the country....
[more] ISLAND (Country & Island) Bosnian, Breton, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, German, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Serbian, Slovak, SwedishForm of
ICELAND.
KENWYN (Settlement) CornishThis is the name of a town and river, located in the south-western English county of Cornwall, which is called Keynwynn in Cornish. It is said that the name is derived from Cornish
keyn meaning "back, keel, ridge" and
gwynn meaning "white, fair, blessed."
KILKENNY (Political Subdivision & Settlement) IrishTown and county in
IRELAND. Means "church of Cainnech". Saint Cainnech was the man who converted the county to Christianity in 597.
KILLOUGH (Settlement) IrishKillough, derived from Irish
Cill Locha "church of the loch", is a village and townland in County Down, Northern Ireland.
LAOIS (Political Subdivision) IrishCounty in
IRELAND. Named after the Gaelic territory of Uí Laoighis, meaning "people of Lugaid Laígne".
LEEDS (Settlement) CelticLeeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England. It derives it's name from a Brythonic term
Ladenses, meaning 'people of the fast-flowing river' (Welsh
llawd). The word likely originally denoted a forest which covered the area of modern day Leeds....
[more] LEITRIM (Political Subdivision & Settlement) IrishCounty and town in
IRELAND. Meaning "gray ridge", from 'liath' ("grey") and 'droim' ("ridge").
LIFFEY (River) IrishThe River Liffey runs through the city of Dublin in the Republic of Ireland. In poetry and mythology, the river is called Abhainn An Life, which is occasionally anglicized as 'Anna Liffey'
LIHOU (Island) Norman, BretonIsland in the Channel Islands in
ENGLAND. From the Breton words 'lydd' or 'ligg', meaning "in or near water", and the Norman suffix -'hou', meaning "island". The island and reef in
AUSTRALIA named after this island.
LIVERPOOL (Settlement) English, WelshA port city in western England on the mouth of the River Mersey. Uncertain origin. Possibly derived from Cumbric words equivalent to the Welsh
leidiau, meaning 'mud' and
pwll, meaning 'pool', or else the Old English formation
*Liferpōl, 'thick, muddy pool'.
LLANBERIS (Settlement) WelshA village in North Wales. The first element is Welsh
llan, 'parish, church of-'. The second is a corruption of
Peris, a 6th century Welsh saint.
LOCH GARMAN (Political Subdivision) IrishIrish name for the county of
WEXFORD. Named after Garman Garbh, a legendary figure, who was drowned in the mudflats at the mouth of the river Slaney by an enchantress, resulting in the lake that bears his name...
[more] LONDONDERRY (Political Subdivision & Settlement) IrishAnother name for
DERRY. The prefix -london was added because donations from the city of
LONDON help rebuild Derry in 1613.
LONGYEARBYEN (Settlement) Norwegian, English, Afrikaans, Asturian, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Cebuano, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingua, Italian, Malay, Manx, Maori, North Frisian, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Sami, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Silesian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese, West FrisianMeans "The Longyear town" in Norwegian. Longyearbyen is the main settlement of the Norwegian archipelago
SVALBARD in the Arctic Ocean. The town was named after American businessman John Munro
LONGYEAR (1850-1922) whose company helped develop the settlement.
LOUTH (Political Subdivision & Settlement) IrishCounty and village in
IRELAND. From "Lugh", an ancient Irish god.
LÚ (Political Subdivision & Settlement) IrishIrish form of
LOUTH.
LÚ is the modern Irish form of the ancient Irish god
LUGH.
MAYO (Political Subdivision & Settlement) IrishTown and county in
IRELAND. Means "plain of the yew".
MINQUIER (Island) Breton, Norman, EnglishAn island chain in the Channel Islands,
ENGLAND. Could be from Breton 'minihi', meaning "sanctuary, or from 'minkier' meaning "seller of fish".
MONAGHAN (Political Subdivision & Settlement) IrishTown and county in
IRELAND. Means "land of little hills", "bushy field", or "hilly field".
MORVAH (Settlement) CornishFrom Cornish
Morvedh, derived from
mor "sea" and
bedh "grave". This is the name of a small Cornish village.
MOURNE (Mountain) IrishBoth the name of a mountain range and a river in Northern Ireland, meaning "misty fists" from Irish
múig "smoke, gloom" and
dorn "fist".
NAVAN (Other) IrishIrish place name meaning "the cave" (?)
OFFALY (Political Subdivision) IrishCounty in
IRELAND. Named after the Gaelic kingdom of Uí Failghe, which existed from the 6th century until 1556.
PANAMA (Country) Afrikaans, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, UzbekFrom Spanish
Panamá of uncertain meaning. It may be derived from the name of a tree commonly found in the area (genus Sterculia), from an indigenous word meaning "many butterflies", from Kuna
bannaba meaning "distant, far away", or from a Guaraní word meaning "place of many fish"...
[more] RHYL (Settlement) WelshThis is the name of a town in Northern Wales.
ROSCOMMON (Political Subdivision & Settlement) IrishCounty and town in
IRELAND. From the Irish 'Ros Comáin', meaning "Saint Coman's wood", after Saint Coman mac Faelchon who built a monastery there in the 5th century.
SÁPMI (Region) Sami, Swedish, English, German, Breton, Faroese, Manx, Scots, VietnamesePerhaps ultimately derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
*źemē meaning "earth".
Suomi, the Finnish name for Finland, is believed to be derived from the same root...
[more] SAWEL (Mountain) English, Irish (Anglicized)Sawel Mountain (historically known as Slieve Sawel) is the highest peak in the Sperrins, a mountain range in Northern Ireland. This is an Anglicized form of Irish
samhail meaning "likeness", taken from its Irish name
Samhail Phite Méabha "likeness to
MÉABH's vulva", referring to a glen or hollow on the side of the mountain.
SLIGO (Political Subdivision & Settlement) IrishTown and county in
IRELAND. Means "shelly place", because of the large amount of shellfish the nearby river.
SPARTA (Settlement) English, Czech, Danish, Finnish, German, Icelandic, Manx, Polish, Ancient Greek, Ancient Roman, HistoryFrom Doric Greek Σπάρτα (Sparta) and Attic Greek Σπάρτη (Spartē), which is of uncertain origin but possibly derived from σπάρτον (sparton) meaning "rope, cable" - a reference to the cords laid as the city’s foundation boundaries, though this could be just a folk etymology....
[more] TREDEGAR (Settlement) WelshA town in South-East Wales. Its name derives from the Old Welsh
tref, which means 'town' or traditionally 'farm, estate', and
degewr, which meant 'ten acres'.
TREWELLARD (Settlement) CornishTrewellard is a small village on the north coast road between St Just and St Ives in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
TYRCONNELL (Political Subdivision) IrishAnother name for the Irish county of
DONEGAL. It means "land of Conall", a king from the area. Conall means "strong wolf".
WATERFORD (Settlement) IrishA city in Southern Ireland. Its name derives from Old Norse
veðra, 'ram' (Swedish
vädur, 'ram', See
WETHERBY) and
fjord, 'fjord'.