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Common suffixes include Pur, Ner, Gav, Abad, Khed, Oli, Wadi, Nagar, Tur, Vali, and Ra.

Names of settlements Most pre-modern settlement names contain a generic element describing the place's function (e.g. 'farm', 'market', 'fort') or a prominent natural feature, or both; if only one of these is present, it is often modified by a personal name or an adjective.

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You'll begin to notice some simple suffixes like 'ton' (farm or hamlet), 'ham' (village or estate), 'ly' or 'ley' (wood or a clearing), 'stow' (place or meeting place) and 'bury' (fort).

Common suffixes include "ton" (enclosure, estate, homestead), "llan" (church, churchyard, village with church, parish), "ar" (high, hight), "by" (settlement, village), "cwm" (valley) and "aber" (mouth (of a river), confluence, a meeting of waters).

Suffixes for towns -port. -clare. -ley. -view. -folk. -sex. -karta. -grad.

By in Old Norse signified a farmstead or village. In modern Scandinavian languages, a 'by' still means village or city. In English, the word has also given rise to the terms 'by-election' and 'by-laws' ? although pronounced differently than the suffix.

By in Old Norse signified a farmstead or village. In modern Scandinavian languages, a 'by' still means village or city. In English, the word has also given rise to the terms 'by-election' and 'by-laws' ? although pronounced differently than the suffix.

Place names ending in -by, such as Selby or Whitby. These -by endings are generally places where the Vikings settled first. In Yorkshire there are 210 -by place names. The -by has passed into English as 'by-law' meaning the local law of the town or village.

That's because the suffix "-bury" derives from the Anglo-Saxon "burh," meaning "a fort or fortified place." So when you drive along I-84 from Waterbury to Danbury, passing Middlebury and Southbury along the way, you're traveling a well-fortified route.