Sclavonic affixes, used as patronymics, like the Ger. ingen; e.g. Nowakwitz (the possession of the descendants of Nouak); Jvanow, Janow, Janowitz (belonging to John and his descendants); Karlowitz (to Charles); Petrowitz (to Peter); Kazimiritz (to Casimir); Mitrowitz (to Demetrius); Stanislowow (to Stanislaus); Tomazow (to Thomas); Cracow or Kracow (the town of Duke Craus or Krak of Poland, by whom it was founded in 1700).
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PALATIUM (Lat.),
PALAZZO (It.),
PALACHIO (Span.),
PALAS (Cym.-Cel.),
PAILIS (Gadhelic),
a palace; e.g. the Upper and Lower Palatinate, so called from the palaces erected by the Roman emperors in different parts of the empire; Palazzo, in Dalmatia and Naples; Palazzolo and Palazzuolo (the great palace), in Piedmont; Los Palachios (the palaces), in Spain; Pfalsbourg, anc. Palatiolum (the town of the palace, founded in 1570), in France; Semipalatinsk, in Siberia (the town of the seven palaces), so called from the extensive ruins in its neighbourhood; Spalatro, in Dalmatia, named from the palace of Diocletian, originally Salonæ-Palatium (the palace near Salona), at first corrupted to As-palthium (at the palace), and then to Spalatro. In Wales: Plas-gwyn (the white palace); Plas-newydd (the new palace).
PALLI (Tamil),
a small town or village, sometimes corrupted to Poly, Pilly, or Pally; e.g. Trichinopoly, i.e. Trisira-palli (the town of the giant).
PALUS (Lat.),
PADULE (It.),
a marsh; e.g. Padula and Paduli, towns in Italy; Peel, Lat. palus, an extensive marsh in Belgium; La Pala, La Palud, and Paluz, in France; Perugia (the town on the marsh), in a province of the same name in Italy; Pelusium, Coptic Permoun (the muddy or marshy place), on the Delta of the Nile.
PANT (Welsh),
a hollow; e.g. Pant-y-crwys (the hollow of the cross), in Wales; Pant-yr-Ysgraff for Pont-yr-Ysgraff—v. PONT.