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Re: OT: Place name constituents

From:Dana Nutter <sasxsek@...>
Date:Friday, May 19, 2006, 16:26
> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Peter Bleackley
> >I wanted to add some flavour to my maps and thus thought > >about elements that can occur in place names. In German > >place names for example, some common elements are -burg > >(-castle/-burg), -berg (-hill), -stadt (-town), -ingen > >(??), -hausen/-heim (??), -born/-brunn (spring), -feld(en) > >(-field), -mund/-münden (-mouth), -wald(en) (-wood). I'd > >like to know what more typical constituents appear in the > >world's langauges or in your conlangs/worlds. > > Old English typical elements - > ton > stockade, enclosure > ham > home > stead > homestead > ing > family
The U.S. has a strange mix of many traditional English and other European style names like "-burg/-burgh", "-town/-ton", but one that's very common around here is "-ville". ------------------------------ dejnx nxtxr / Dana Nutter LI SASXSEK LATIS. http://www.nutter.net/sasxsek

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