LL-L "Names" 2003.10.06 (07) [E]

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From: Kenneth Rohde Christiansen <kenneth at gnu.org>
Subject: LL-L "Names" 2003.10.06 (01) [E]

Rounded hill, hmm. We have "deich/dieken/dijken/diger" there though.

If anyone wants to see some pictures or maybe find some addresses of
people to contact, this might be a starting point.

http://www.dofribeamt.dk/darumengeforlandsluse.htm
http://www.darum.dk/historie/

http://www.bramming-egnsmuseum.dk/lokalarkiver.htm

Kenneth

> From: Ben J. Bloomgren <godsquad at cox.net>
> Subject: LL-L "Names" 2003.10.04 (03) [E]
>
> Place-names ending on -um:
> > in most cases this endings {-um, -en, -un, etc.} go
> > back on the oldgermanic dativ plural, which was used
> > to indicate place-names.
>
> Hello all. I may be far away from the truth of this conversation, but as a
> novice as to the Germanic languages, I wonder if the ending um could come
> from the High German suffix -um, meaning around. When I saw the name Darum
> in Jutland, I immediately thought of Daram or maybe Darum in Hochdeutsch.
I
> have no idea why, as I know that daram means therefore, as we concluded in
> previous conversations and threads. In my experience with British English
> names, nothing seems to be impossible with names. I imagine a town in
> Denmark or northern Germany called Dar Round, as in a rounded hill or
> something.
> Ben

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