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[–] paranoia@feddit.dk 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

There are a lot of surnames like that in English. Westfield, Norwood, Whitmore, Blackwell, etc.

In Danish you get some very precise locations of farms relative to villages and see names like Nordestgaard (North East Farm), Højgaard (high farm, i.e., on a hill), Bjerregaard (mountain farm)

[–] farmgineer@nord.pub 3 points 1 day ago

Yep, very true. I couldn't think of any examples when writing, but I often mention that when people talk about how cool Japanese names are "because they have (characters that have) meaning". We have those in English, too!