I've created a new web app - British Placename Mapper at https://placenames.rtwilson.com/ - you can search for placenames in various ways (starts with 'great', ends with 'burgh' etc) and show them on an interactive map. Try a few of the examples and send me any cool maps you come up with!
(Re-posting for those who sensibly weren't using social media on a bank holiday weekend!)
OK, that's nerdy and good! @BUnicycling has trawled OSM data for places named for historic "pound"s or "pinfold"s - fundamentally the same thing[1] - to help decide which tag should be used. The plots are nice! (via Weekly OSM)
Many Icelanders tend to think that #Icelandic is the only #language which has its own version of #placenames. They also think of these names as translations. They usually aren't.
For instance #Kyiv is Kænugarður. The name comes from the Viking Age when some Norse (often Swedes) went east while the more famous ones went west.
Another example is the #Danish#Aarhus. The Icelandic Árósar retains the original meaning of "the river mouth" while the modern Danish name is a bit like "river house".
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I don't think Kænugarður is related to the modern word #Kyiv. It is a compound word.
Kæna is a boat.
Garður is a standard #OldNorse suffix to denote a city with the literal meaning being walls or walled (maybe enclosed is the clearest). Think garden and it's connection to the word guard. Constantinople was called Mikligarður (mikli meaning great).
"Bharat" is already India's name in most local languages, including Hindi, and is mentioned as a synonym of "India" in the English version of the country's constitution, but hasn't been used in formal international contexts until now.
The name "#India" was already used by the Ancient Greeks more than 2000 years ago, though some in the region associate it more now with the #UK's colonial subjugation of the country in the 1700s-1900s.