What does that mean?

Whenever I come across a place name, I tend to wonder how did this place get this name!!! ' Delhi ' - I was told in one of my Linguistics classes that Delhi was derived from the Hindi language word - ' Dehleez ' meaning ' Threshold ', as it was a kind of threshold to enter India. ~ ~ ~

I love words and it's fun to know how words and names originate. Kind of, this is a blog that links me to my subject 'Linguistics' as well. Let me start with my last name ' Vernekar ' Well, that's made up of 2 morphemes, Verne + kar 'Verne' stands for a place in Goa, India 'kar' stands for 'Taxes' In short, my last name stands for someone who paid taxes in Verne or is from Verne Similarly, here are some other Goa-based last names: Netalkar = Netarli + kar Revankar = Revana + kar Shirodkar = Shiroda + kar Mangeshkar = Mangeshi +kar Another word - ' Onomastics ', that's where the basics for Place Name and Proper Name dissection can be studied. ~ ~ ~