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a place name that snitches on its own history.
means a proper name derived from or referring to a geographic location, like a river, mountain, or town.
from from greek topos, meaning place, plus onyma, meaning name; the study of these is toponymy, a discipline basically dedicated to reading landscapes like gossip columns.
hidden meaningparis comes from a celtic tribe, the parisii
personal namesmany surnames like hamilton were once toponyms too
canadacanada may derive from an iroquoian word for village