a village, found only in Brittany; _e.g._ Pleu-meur (great village); Pleu-nevey (new village); Ploer-mel (the mill village); Pleu-Jian (John’s village); Pleu, Ploven, Pleven, etc. [Sidenote: PLÖN, POLSKI (Sclav.),] a plain; _e.g._ Ploen, a town in Holstein; Plönersee (the lake of the plain); Juriev-Polskoi (St. George’s town on the plain); Poland, _i.e._ _Polskoi_ (the plain or level land); Volkynia (the level country). [Sidenote: POD (Sclav.),] near or under; _e.g._ Podgoriza (under the hill); Podmokla (near the moss); Potsdam, from _Pozdu-pemi_ (under the oaks). [Sidenote: POLDER (Dutch),] land reclaimed from the sea; _e.g._ Polder and Polders, in Belgium; Beemsterpolder (the meadow of the reclaimed land); Charlotten-Polder (Charlotte’s reclaimed land); Pwlpolder (land reclaimed from a pool or marsh). [Sidenote: POLIS (Grk.),] a city; _pol_ (Sclav.), probably borrowed from the Greek; Constantinople, Adrianople, founded by the emperors Constantine and Adrian; Nicopolis and Nicopoli (the city of victory)--the first founded by Augustus to commemorate the battle of Actium, and the second by Trajan to commemorate his victory over the Dacians; Persepolis (the city of the Persians); Pampeluna, corrupt. from _Pompeiopolis_, so called because rebuilt by the sons of Pompey the Great; Decapolis (the district of the ten cities), colonised by the Romans, in Palestine; Sebastopol (the august city); Stavropol (the city of the cross), in Russia; Bielopol (the white city); Bogopol (the city of God, Sclav. _Bog_); Gallipoli, anc. _Calipolis_ (the beautiful city); Naples, Nauplia, Nablous, and Neapolis (the new city); Grenoble, corrupt. from _Gratianopolis_ (the city of Gratian); Heliopolis (the city of the sun), being the Greek name for On, in Egypt, and also for Baalbec, in Syria; Krasnapol (the fair city); Theriasipol, in Hungary (named after the Empress Theresa)--its Hungarian name _Szabadka_ (the privileged); Yelisabetpol (after the Empress Elizabeth); Tripoli, in Syria (the three cities), being a joint colony from Tyre, Sidon, and Aradus; Tripoli, in Barbary, named from its three principal cities, Lepta, Oca, and Sabrata; Tripolitza, in the Morea, built from the remains of the three cities Tegea, Mantinea, and Palantium; Amphipolis, now _Emboli_ (the surrounded city), so called because almost encircled by the R. Strymon; Anapli, in the Morea, corrupt. from _Neapolis_ (new town); Annapolis, in Nova Scotia, named after Queen Anne; Antibes, in Provence, a colony from Marseilles, anc. _Antinopolis_, named after its founder; Stamboul, the Turkish name for Constantinople, means _eis ten polin_ (to the city). [Sidenote: POLL (Gadhelic), PWL (Cym.-Cel.), POEL (Teut.),]