Re: OT: Place name constituents

> [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".


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