Talk:Irish exonyms

Douglas, Isle of Man
Where did the term Dubh Lios as a translation for Douglas come from? The name in Manx is Doolish which itself has two etymological histories, the first coming from Doo and Glass - the names of two rivers in the area meaning "Black" and "Green" or "Fair" respectively. The second coming from the same words but with a different meaning, (and one more likely in my opinion) Doo and Glass (genitive: glish, with lenition rendering it as lish - the placename would probably have originally been rendered in Manx as Doolass (compare Irish Dúghlas, Dubhghlas and Scots Gaelic Dùghlas) giving Black stream, so when one would talk of something belonging to the Black Stream they would call it Doolish (genitive) e.g. Awin Ghoolish or Awin ny Doolish, Balley Corpagh Ghoolish etc. The Irish name given in the article is Dubh Lios which means "Black Ringfort" despite a lack of forts of the category "lios" in the area! The only place I can find for the use of the term Dubh Lios is on wikipedia (Irish and English) - this strikes me as being of Original Research. Any comments? --MacTire02 (talk) 12:42, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Isle of Man
I don't know anything about the etymology of Douglas, but I wonder why the Isle of Man is included at all given that Wales, Scotland and Brittany are explicitly excluded.Crc (talk) 06:30, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Wales, Scotland, and Brittany (albeit listed under France) are included. --MacTire02 (talk) 07:52, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Why?
Who, other than their authors, looks at such pages? What's the use of an endless list of examples of the obvious fact that each language adapts foreign words to its own phonology? —Tamfang (talk) 22:30, 13 October 2017 (UTC)