Rick Mc Callister wrote: > So then, does Leipzig amount to something like "White River Town" > with *la:b- > /laip/ with maybe the 2nd element related to English <wick> > & German <weig> Ernst Schwarz derives it from Sorbian <Lipsko> 'Lindenort' (Russ. and Pol. <lipa> 'linden'). Brian M. Scott