LL-L "Names" 2005.05.15 (03) [E]

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From: Jan Strunk <strunkjan at hotmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Names" 2005.05.13 (10) [E]

Hello,

Ben Bloomgren wrote:
> From: Ben.Bloomgren at asu.edu <Ben.Bloomgren at asu.edu>
> Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2005.05.13 (04) [E]
>
> Frisian name"
>
> Where is the German city of Bochum? Are its origins also Frisian?

The city of Bochum is in Westphalia, now in the heart of the Ruhr District,
a large
metropolitan area in West Germany. It's neighboring towns are Herne,
Gelsenkirchen, Essen,
Dortmund, Hattingen, Witten, etc. I am actually living there, so I am a
Bochumer Jung.

I doubt very much that there is any Frisian connection. I guess you infer
this from the ending
-"um", right? But in Westphalia many of the town names which used to have a
"-heim" (home) ending
are now pronounced "-um" but also often with "-em" in Low Saxon. Thus the
Low Saxon name
of Bochum is "Bauckum" or "Bauckem". It originates from "buokheim" i.e.
"Beech Home".

This is taken from Bochum's official website:

1041
Erste urkundliche Erwähnung unter dem Namen Cofbuokheim in einem Dokument
der Kölner Erzbischöfe.
First documentary evidence of the name Cofbuokheim in a document of the
archbishops of Cologne.

There are some more towns in Westphalia end in "-um", e.g. Walsum and
Beckum.

Gued gaon!

Jan Strunk
strunk at linguistics.rub.de

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