Re: Roots of English (Was: Intro and other)

Oooh! I'd feel dubious about many, if not all, of those. They're all in the
Danelaw, or areas otherwise heavily influenced by Scandinavians. Without the
earliest-recorded forms of those placenames he'd be a brave soul who
ventured a definitive origin from a Fries- root (Hence your cautious
"perhaps"), and since Fr- would have been a common initial consonant cluster
in all Scandinavian languages (personal names, for example, based on Frodi-,
Frig-, etc) I'd plump for them all being probable Scandinavian placenames.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anton Sherwood" <bronto@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 2:39 AM
Subject: Re: Roots of English (Was: Intro and other)


> Michael Poxon wrote:
> > Frisian didn't come to England. . . .
>
> Except perhaps at Freston and Friston (Sf), Frieston and Friesthorpe
> (Li), Frisby (Le), Frismarsh (YE), Frizington (Cu).
>
> --
> Anton Sherwood  --  http://www.ogre.nu/

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