an island or peninsula; _e.g._ Algiers or Al-Jezirah, named from an island near the town; Al-Geziras (the islands), near Gibraltar; Alghero (the peninsula), in Sardinia; Jezirah-diraz (long island), in the Persian Gulf; Al-Jezirah or Mesopotamia (between the river). [Sidenote: JÖKUL (Scand.),] a snow-covered hill; _e.g._ Vatna-Jökul (the hill with the lake); Orefa-Jökul (the desert hill); Forfa-Jökul (the hill of Forfa): Long-Jökul (long hill). [Sidenote: JONC (Fr.),] from _juncus_, Lat. (a rush); _e.g._ Jonchère, Joncheres, Jonchery, Le Jonquer, La Joncières, etc., place-names in France. K KAAI, KAI, KADE (Teut.), a quay or a bank by the water-side; _e.g._ Oudekaai (old quay); Kadzand (the quay or bank on the sand); Moerkade (marshy bank); Kewstoke (the place on the quay); Kew, in Surrey, on the Thames; Torquay (the quay of the hill called _Tor_). [Sidenote: KAHL (Ger.), CALO (A.S.),] bald, cognate with the Lat. _calvus_; _e.g._ Kalenberg and Kahlengebirge (the bald mountains). [Sidenote: KAISER (Ger.), KEYSER (Dutch), CYZAR (Sclav.),] the emperor or Cæsar; _e.g._ Kaisersheim, Kaiserstadt (the emperor’s town); Kaiserstuhl (the emperor’s seat); Kaiserberg (the emperor’s fortress), in Alsace, named from a castle erected by Frederick II.; Kaiserslautern (the emperor’s place), on the R. Lauter; Kaiserswerth (the emperor’s island), on the Rhine; Keysersdyk (the emperor’s dam); Keysersloot (the emperor’s sluice), in Holland; Cysarowes (the emperor’s village), in Bohemia; Kaisariyeh, anc. _Cæsarea_. [Sidenote: KALAT, or KALAH (Ar.),] a castle; _e.g._ Khelat, in Belochistan; Yenikale (the new castle), in the Crimea; Calatablanca (white castle), in Sicily; Calahorra, Ar. _Kalat-harral_ (stone castle), in Spain; Calata-bellota (the oak-tree castle), in Sicily; Calata-girone (the surrounded castle), Sicily; Calata-mesetta (the castle of the women); Calatayud (the castle of Ayud, a Moorish king); Alcala-real (the royal castle); Alcala-de-Henares (the castle on the R. Henares), in Spain; Sanjiac-Kaleh (the castle of the standard), corrupt. by the French into _St. Jaques_, in Asia Minor; Calatrava (the castle of Rabah). [Sidenote: KAMEN (Sclav.),] a stone; _e.g._ Camentz, Kemmen, Kammena, Kamienetz (the stony place); Kamminchen (the little stony place), a colony from Steenkirchen; Chemnitz (the stony town, or the town on the stony river); Kersna-kaimai (the Christian’s stone house); Schemnitz, Hung. _Selmecz_ (stony town), in Silesia. [Sidenote: KARA (Turc.),]