LL-L "Names" 2005.05.16 (05) [E]

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From: Theo Homan <theohoman at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: LL-L "Names" 2005.05.15 (03) [E]

> 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)

> 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.
>
> There are some more towns in Westphalia end in
> "-um", e.g. Walsum and
> Beckum.
>
> Gued gaon!
>
> Jan Strunk
> strunk at linguistics.rub.de

Hallo,

yes, place-names on -um go back on older -heim OR
still have their old ending -um, being an old dativ
(pluralis). This old-germanic um-case was used to
indicate a placename [also to be found as -un, en,
etc.)

vr.gr.
Theo Homan

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