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From: Soenke Dibbern <s_dibbern at web.de>
Subject: LL-L "History" 2008.05.22 (01) [E]

Op'n Du., den 22. Mai.'08, hett Mark Dreyer dit Klock 19.37 schreven:

From: Mark Dreyer <mrdreyer at lantic.net>
Subject: LL-L "History" 2008.05.20 (02) [E]

Hi Mark!

You wrote:

> These 'Wurthen', these mounds - could they be called in some other Lowlands
> language or dialect 'terpen'?
>
"Terp" is - according to Online Etymology Dictionary[¹] - the Frisian
cognate of LS "Dörp", D "Dorp", G "Dorf", E place name suffix "-thorp",
"village".

 & one last comment; Ron am I right in connecting the word 'Wyk' as well as
> the other familiar one across the Channel, '-wich' with the Latin 'Vicus',
> being the smallest community unit recognised for administrative purposes in
> the Later Roman Empire
>
Probably. At least Online Etymology Dictionary[²] points into this
direction, as does my Etymology Duden dictionary - here for "purlieus,
municipal area", G "Weichbild":
--- shortened quote ---
The initially Low German/Middel German word (MHG wīchbilde, MLG wīkbelde,
like MD wijcbelt) contains as first part OHG wīh, MLG/OSaxon wīk (MD wīk, OE
wīc) "living place, settlement", that came into West Germanic from Lat.
vicus "village, homestead". It is related to Lat. villa, Greek oīkos "house"
and Gothic weihs "village".
--- unquote ---

I just start to wonder if LS "Wisch", like in the place names
"Hödienwisch/Tödienwisch/Haferwisch" I mentioned in my short Dithmarschen
history may also be related to this, and that this evolved into modern LS
Wisch "meadow"?

Regards,
Sönke

[1] http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=thorp
[2] http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=wich
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