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For ease of use, the [i] in front of the last name, and the ending _ve, were dropped. If the last name ends in [a], then removing the [j] would give the name of the patriarch or the place, as in, Grudaj - j = Gruda (place in MM). Otherwise, removing the whole ending [aj] yields the name of founder or place of origin, as in Lekaj - aj = Lek(ë).
This article lists a number of common generic forms in place names in the British Isles, their meanings and some examples of their use.The study of place names is called toponymy; for a more detailed examination of this subject in relation to British and Irish place names, refer to Toponymy in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
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Look up -ey in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The suffix -ey can appear in the English language: from Dutch / Scottish origin, as a diminutive like -ie or simply -y, with several other values. from Old Norse, in placenames with the meaning of "island", as in Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, or Caldey.
The letter Y was used to represent the sound /y/ in Old English, so Latin u , y and i were all used to represent distinct vowel sounds. But, by the time of Middle English, /y/ had lost its roundedness and became identical to i (/iː/ and /ɪ/). Therefore, many words that originally had i were spelled with y , and vice versa.
initialism = an abbreviation pronounced wholly or partly using the names of its constituent letters, e.g., CD = compact disc, pronounced cee dee; pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters mean that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).
A digraph or digram (from the Ancient Greek: δίς dís, "double" and γράφω gráphō, "to write") is a pair of characters used in the orthography of a language to write either a single phoneme (distinct sound), or a sequence of phonemes that does not correspond to the normal values of the two characters combined.
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