Anatolian /-ant/

[Rick Mc Callister]

[snip]

>American
>English might be said to have borrowed German /-burg/ as a toponymic
>suffix, merely by having a lot of toponyms in /-burg/.  Any American
>would recognixe any "X-burg" as a toponym.

>					DLW

>[ Moderator's comment:
>  Isn't this last Anglo-Saxon rather than a German borrowing?  Cf. Edinburg
>  (a calque on Dunedin).
>  --rma ]

	A bit of both BUT as I understand it Anglo-Saxon had /burx/, hence
<borough>. The story that I've heard is that Pittsburgh was laid out and
named by a Scot, who pronounced it /pItsb at r@/ --or something to that
effect. But others saw the spelling and assumed it was /pItsb at rg/ --with
<-burg> from German. And from then on, there was a slew of burgs,
especially in Midwest with all of its settlers of German origin.
	OR so I've been told.
	BTW: I've also seen the argument that Dunedin is a calque of
"Edwin's burh".