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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span class="gI"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">LL-L "Etymology" 2010.02.24 (09) [EN]</span><br><br></span><div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" id=":7d" class="ii gt">
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<div><span>Dear
Heather,</span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span>you wrote about the
changes of a word through the time:</span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span>fif aecc (five oaks)
>> pickt oak >> pitt oak</span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span>I don't know if
this is an example for 'endonym' vs 'exonym', but I've met similar ongoings in
our region.</span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span>A village which
today is DE "Acht-höfen" ("Eight Farms") had been "Nacht-höfen" ("Night Farms")
in the 15. century. But there must have been a forerunner, which I presume had
dealt with anything close to "naechst-" ("next-") or "Nach(-bar)"
("neigh[-bour]").</span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span>In my
home-village we have "Nallje", also written "Nallie". This probably had
been LS "(Dat) Neije", "(The) New", because it is found in
several parts of the village and always denotes a cadastral district
which had be won from the water (in the marshlands) in
<strong><em>younger</em></strong> times, i.e. later than the surrounding areas.
I guess that it was the result of the fact that the cadastre people didn't speak
Low Saxon and just wrote it down close to the way they had heard it being
pronounced by the natives. The natives themselves picked up this word, but after
a short time nobody, neither the natives nor any speaker of Standard
German, knew any longer the relationship between 'Nallje' and 'new'. This
could be looked upon as 'endonym' to 'exonym' to 'endonym' to 'zero'
;-)!</span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span>In our Hannes
homeland Mecklenburg I've seen a creek called 'Maurine' which probably had been
LS 'Mour-Rönne', meaning "runnel in the moor". I don't know how the natives<font color="#ff0000" size="4">*</font> name it today, but 'Maurine' obviously
sounded better in the ears of the officials. </span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#ff0000" size="4">*</font>(Beste <font color="#ff0000"><strong>Hanne</strong></font>, weytst
Du, wat Jouw'n Lüü' vandaog opp Platt tou de 'Maurine' seggen
douht?)</span></div>
<div><span> </span></div>
<div><span>I could list up
examples over examples where old location names have been fouled up beyond
all recognition. </span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div align="left"><span></span> <span>With
kind regards</span></div>
<div align="left"> </div><font color="#888888">
<div align="left">Jonny Meibohm</div>
<div align="left">Lower Saxony,
Germany</div></font></div>
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