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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Etymology

I wrote:

So let's remember that the place is called "Rugg's Place."  Unless this is
based on later folk etymology, we can deduce two things about it:

   1. It is a relatively recently created (or recreated) name, no earlier
   than during Norman times, for I would expect something like *Rugstead,
   *Rugsted, *Ruckstead or *Rucksted had it been created earlier (not
   mentioning possible versions with "j" or "ch" sounds).

   2. "Rugg" was a person or a person's estate. Alternatively, it was a
   topographic feature or a place dedicated to certain activities.

Why not belabor this some more?

Genitive (possessive) "'s" in place names (always?) involves proper names
(including titles and places, the latter especially churches and parishes),
such as the following in England alone:

Abbot's Bromley, Barnard's Inn, Barnard's Inn, Bicester King's End, Bigge's
Quarter, Bishop's Castle, Bishop's Caundle, Bishop's Cleeve, Bishop's Frome,
Bishop's Hatfield, Bishop's Hull, Bishop's Itchington, Bishop's Lydeard,
Bishop's Nympton, Bishop's Palace, Bishop's Stortford, Bishops Sutton,
Bishop's Tachbrook, Bishop's Tawton, Bishops Waltham, Bishopsbourne,
Bredon's Norton, Bullock's Hall, Byard's Leap, Child's Ercall, Child's
Wickham, Coldsmouth and Thompson's Wall, Duke's Hagg, Furnival's Inn,
Gerrard's Cross, Gray's Inn, Green's Norton, Grey's Forest, Guy's Cliffe,
Hart's Grounds, Hayward's Heath, King's Bromley, King's Caple, King's Marsh,
King's Norton (etc., etc. with King's), Lincoln's Inn, Morgan's Vale and
Woodfalls, Neville's Cross, Pelham's Lands, Pollard's Lands, Prior's Heys,
Queen's Nympton, Richard's Castle, Riddell's Quarter, Selby's Forest ...

Furthermore, could Rugg be derived from the surname (de) Rugge that came in
with large-scale "Flemish" immigration to Britain?

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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