LL-L "Orthography" 2003.09.19 (01) [E]

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From: Sandy Fleming [sandy at scotstext.org]
Subject: "Names"

> From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Names
>
> I wrote today:
>
> > Luc (above):
> >
> > > Could that be related to the county of "Loon". This region
> was situated
> > > in what is now a part of Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany.
> > > A great part of it is now called "Limburg".
> >
> > Ah!  And there is the city of Lohne in the Oldenburg region of Germany!
> And
> > a river by the same name!  I wonder if there is a connection.  What is
> their
> > origin?
> >
> > I am tempted to connect these with the _lo(h)_ 'grove', 'woods' (i.e.,
> with
> > _-(e)n(+e)_) we mentioned before, and a couple of websites I consulted
> seem
> > to confirm this.  So these areas are or used to be woodsy.

Just for the record, there's a River Lune running through the city of
Lancaster in Lancashire, north-west England, from which I presume Lancaster
derives its name.  I drive across the river on my way from here to Scotland,
and the area is indeed very woodsy.

Sandy
http://scotstext.org/

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From: Global Moose Translations <globalmoose at t-online.de>
Subject: LL-L "Names" 2003.09.18 (10) [E]

> > I am tempted to connect these with the _lo(h)_ 'grove', 'woods' (i.e.,
> with
> > _-(e)n(+e)_) we mentioned before, and a couple of websites I consulted
> seem
> > to confirm this.  So these areas are or used to be woodsy.

I come from a small village in southern Lower Saxony (which is, by the way,
famous for its pottery and has been home to a colony of artists for
decades). It is called Fredelsloh. In school I learned that the ending
"-loh" means that instead of chopping down trees and digging out stumps, the
wooded area where the village was built was cleared by fire ("Lohe" is an
old German word for "flames").

Gabriele Kahn

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