LL-L: "Etymology" LOWLANDS-L, 24.JUL.2001 (03) [E]

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Etymology

Lowlanders,

I wrote:

> Reiner mentions above the Low Saxon (Low German) word _Üvelgönne_ (which > is
> its form in his Westphalian dialect) in connection with the American > English
> use of "slough."  I should mention that it also occurs as a place name:
>
> Övelgönne:
> * a town now part of Hamburg, Germany
> * a town in Lower Saxony near Hamburg, Germany
> * a town between Bremen, Oldenburg and the Jadebusen, Lower Saxony, > Germany
> * a town on the Lübeck Bay, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
> * a town near Magdeburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
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> Euvelgunne:
> * now a part of greater Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
>
> Does anyone know the etymology of _Gönne_/_gunne_?

I should have mentioned that _üvel_ ~ _övel_ ~ _öbel_ is a cognate of English
_evil_ and in this context seems to mean something like _foul(-smelling)_.
Ted Harding wrote:

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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