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plural placenames
The name of a place; a word or phrase which indicates a particular location or region. quotations examples
With a complex site, different site elements may not be terminologically distinguished, or else a generic term may be optionally added to the placename to distinguish a site element, such as a hill, well, or claypan at the location.
2012, Nick Thieberger, The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Fieldwork, page 401