Re: OT: Place name constituents

staving Carsten Becker:
>Hello,
>
>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

Pete

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