Re: OT: Place name constituents
| From: | Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, May 20, 2006, 9:14 |
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On Sat, 20 May 2006 04:06, Jim Henry wrote:
> On 5/19/06, Carsten Becker <carbeck@...> wrote:
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> One of the spiffiest bits of place-name conlangery is
> the name of a ford in _The Phoenix Guards_ by
> Steven Brust. I can't cite it because my copy is loaned
> out; basically the aboriginals called it simply "ford"
> in their language, and each people who came along
> and grabbed the land after them took the previous name,
> perhaps mangled it to fit their own language's
> phonology, and added their own language's word
> for "ford". I think the final name was something like
> "Bengloalafurd", but I suspect I'm misspelling it because
> this only gets on Ghit.
Two examples of that occuring that I can think of, right off the top of my
head, are the River Avon - River River (Welsh), and Mount Maunganui - Mount
Big Mount (Maori).
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