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What do we name them for?

• Attribute names
• Names of cardinal directions
• Names of soil or vegetation characteristics
• Names to commemorate events
• Names that commemorate other places
• Names to commemorate people
• Names with religious overtones
• Names to stake claims

Names mostly start as descriptive names

• So first names mostly are transparent
• Later, because knowledge of the (initial) language disappears, they may become opaque

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