LL-L "Names" 2003.05.16 (04) [E]

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From: "Mike" <botas at club-internet.fr>
Subject: LL-L "Help needed" 2003.03.11 (02) [E/LS]

In a recent announcement (for some festival) I read "Sprött",
but no idea how authentic that might be.
Mike Wintzer

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

Thanks, Mike, and good to have you back in our round.

It turns out -- and this has been confirmed in the meantime -- that the
town that is called "Sprötze" in German (now a part of
Bookhult/Boukholt/Buchholz) -- is called "Spröötz" in the dialect of the
area (the northern part of the Lunenburg Heath, south of Hamburg).

Since words of purely Saxon origin* do not contain syllables ending with
_-z_, _-tz_ or _-ts_ (unless you are dealing with plural _-s_), I wonder
if we are dealing with one of the westernmost place names of Slavonic
origin.

* Words like _Danz_ 'dance', _Grenz_ 'border', and _Krüütz_ ~ _Krüüz_
'cross' are loanwords.  Native morphology can deal with them because
plural _-s_ after _-t_, and compounds of the type _-t+s-_ or _-d+s_ are
permissible.  However, in many dialects the words listed above are
pronounced as _Dans_ ~ _Danß_, _Grens_ ~ _Grenß_ and _Krüüs_ ~ _Krüüß_
respectively; cf. also Dutch _dans_, _grens_ and _kruis_, versus German
_Tanz_, _Grenze_ and _Kreuz_ respectively.

Note also the Slavonic-derived Lowlands Saxon (Low German) word _Döönz_
~ _Dönz_ ~ _Dööns_ ~ _Döns_ 'parlor', '(good) room (by the front door in
which to receive guests)', 'living-room' (< [Polabian <] Slav.
*_dvornica_ "the one by the door"?).

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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