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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 19 October 2007 - Volume 05</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Song Contest: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/contest/">lowlands-l.net/contest/</a> (- 31 Dec. 2007)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
========================================================================</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span>
<span id="_user_Dutchmatters@comcast.net" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Jacqueline Bungenberg de Jong <<a href="mailto:Dutchmatters@comcast.net">Dutchmatters@comcast.net</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.10.19 (03) [D/E/Russian]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><p style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">Hello all, Kevin says: Interesting.
Any possible connection to Russian <i><span style="font-style: italic;">ruki </span></i>'arms/hands'
(?things you reap or pluck with?)?</span></font></p>
<p style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">Funny, in Dutch "rukken"
means to pull fiercely, to yank, and then there is "rukwind" a sudden wind that
does the same to the old tree or your patio furniture. Jacqueline</span></font></p><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"<a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk
</a>"</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg"> <<a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.10.19 (03) [D/E/Russian]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Dear All who have replied to my query re Rugge</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Thank you v v much indeed for all these ideas. I have saved them all so I can refer to them later.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">One new idea you have started off is the possibility that previous
etymologists might have leapt to the easy conclusion that this estate
called Rugge was connected with the (Martley/Abberly) Ridge that runs
close by.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">But the actual area where we can pinpoint this estate was in Saxon
times ( we are fairly sure) woodland pasture. By the middle of the 13th
century the land was being settled and the land assarted from the
remaining woodland and doled out to large landowners in chunks of 30-60
acres and to smallholders, the latter getting c 5 acres each.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">One of these large chunks was the Rugge - and it could well be that
it was linked to the state of the land as it was reclaimed from the
woodland. i.e the Rough</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">But what I still don't understand is why the same word should be
retained as Rugg's Place (hard g), Ridgend ( soft 'dg') and also
Pugh's Rough.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I take Ron's explanation that if the 'e' ending was lost early,
Rugg's Place would have not softened to 'dg' - unfortunately the
medieval documents we are reading consistently use 'Rugge'</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Any more comments are gratefully rec'd.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">best wishes</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Heather [Randall]<br></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">PS just over the hill in the next Parish a Saxon 'Lacgburna' of
797ad which I would have expected to softened to 'Layburn' remained as
hard 'g' at least into the 18th century where it appears on a map as
Lagbourne and on the 1838 Tithe map some fields nearby are named
Lagbonds. In another parish closeby something similar appears as
'Laybrook' - which seems much more consistent.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Do we have a linguistic island here where sound shifts do not necessarily take place????? </p>
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">;-)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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