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===========================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc.</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:roger.thijs@euro-support.be">roger.thijs@euro-support.be</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Names" 2009.08.04 (01) [EN]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="im">
<div>> From:
<span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"><a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk" target="_blank">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a></span>
<span><<a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk" target="_blank">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a>></span><br>> Subject: LL-L "Language history"
2009.08.03 (06) [EN]<br>> from Heather RendallÂ
<a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk" target="_blank">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a> </div>
</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="im"><div>> Can anyone recommend an authorative book(s) on the origins of North
German placename? This has really whetted my appetite!</div>
<div>Â </div>
</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">I guess others can do better than this:</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">1 - For local toponomy in Germany in its
totality:</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">- <strong>Geographische Namen in Deutschland</strong>,
Herkunft und Bedeutung der Namen von Ländern, Städten, Bergen und
Gewässern,</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">2. überarbeite Auflage von Dieter Berger, 1999, Dudenverlag,
ISBN 3-411-06252-5, 317 pp.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">It is a pocketsize little thing</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">a sample page: <a href="http://www.euro-support.be/tmp/na/du.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.euro-support.be/tmp/na/du.jpg</a></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">2 - For Nordrhein-Westfalen I have an interesting one for
local history, but it barely touches toponomy:</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><strong>Handbuch der historischen Stätten</strong>,<strong>
Nordrhein-Westfalen</strong></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Herausgegeben von den Landschaftsverbänden Rheinland und
Westfalen-Lippe</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">3. völlig neu bearbeitete Auflage, 2006, Stuttgart, Alfred
Kröner, ISBN 978-3-520-27303-1, xxiii + 1256 pp.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">a sample page: <a href="http://www.euro-support.be/tmp/na/nrw.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.euro-support.be/tmp/na/nrw.jpg</a></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Further standard dictionaries and the classical encyclopedias
often have usefull information.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">For the Netherlands I have at home:</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">1 - Gerald van Berkel & Kees Samplonius,</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><strong>Nederlandse plaatsnamen, herkomst en
historie,</strong></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Derde druk, 2006, Utrecht, Het Spectrum, ISBN
978-90-274-2097-1, 532 pp.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">a sample page: <a href="http://www.euro-support.be/tmp/na/nl.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.euro-support.be/tmp/na/nl.jpg</a></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">2 - For Netherlands Limburg:</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Herman Kaldenhoven, <strong>Wat betekent deze plaatsnaam?
Lijst van Limburgse toponiemen,</strong></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">2007, Heerlen, Uitgeverij Leon van Dorp, ISBN
978-90-79326-01-6, 181 pp.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">a sample page: <a href="http://www.euro-support.be/tmp/na/li.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.euro-support.be/tmp/na/li.jpg</a></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">This is not a scientifical selection. It are just
things I found while browsing book shops in the past years.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Hope this helps anyhow.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Regards,</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Roger</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">PS. For the UK I have: Adrian Room, The Penguin dictionary of
British Place Names, 2003, xxxix + 549 pp</font><br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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