Re: USAGE: Name adaptation (fuit: GSF revisited)

Carsten Becker wrote:
>
> I'm even translating the names of cities instead of
> transliterating them -- that is, as far as I can find out
> the etymology: Ternuvim (Hollywood: ternu, 'holy'
> + vim < vinim, 'forest') vs. Prá (Prague < Praha).
I don't believe "holly" has anything to do with "holy."
Holly is a kind of tree. Hollywood = forest of holly trees.

--Ph. D.