Re: OT: Place name constituents

The pseudo-french, French was still spoken in the law courts of
the UK until like 1570.. And still spoken by many college
educated types, but then you get those who are wanna be rich and
sound continental, and not to forget the French and the
Louisiana Purchase, Haiti, Florida and Mexico..

How things come and go in vogue, is funny at times..

I do love the example of Fordfordford Ford. (those who came
next, took the old name of the ford, "Ford" and added things to
it, the Ford Ford, and so on.. not understanding the original
meaning.

Mike
Alaska used to be Alyeska, for some that is..

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dana Nutter" <sasxsek@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 8:14 AM
Subject: Re: 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".
>