Re: OT: Of Angles and Saxons

Wesley Parish scripsit:

> > Sally - or anyone else - do you know the origin of Lloeger?
>
> I've always connected it with the god Lugh, in a sense of "Lugh's land".
> I'm probably wrong. ;)
Poking about on the net shows a pretty clear lack of consensus, with
most sources simply saying "etymology unknown".  The least ugly of
the etymologies gives us Lloegr < LEGORENSIS (CASTRUM) > Leicester,
an old borrowing -- but if so, where does the Latin root come from,
if not simply borrowed from an older British?

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