Re: OT: Place name constituents

Wesley Parish wrote:

>On Sat, 20 May 2006 04:06, Jim Henry wrote:
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>>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.
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>Two examples of that occuring that I can think of, right off the top of my
>head, are the River Avon - River River (Welsh)
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I don't think it's so much Welsh as Brittonic, seeing as the Avon is
mostly in England.