YUROP

1486 readers

42 users here now

A laid back community for good news, pictures and general discussions among people living in Europe.

Other European communities

[email protected]

Other casual communities:

Language communities

Cities

Countries

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

qaz

147

German place name endings (dormi.zone)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

13 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Website: https://truth-and-beauty.net/experiments/ach-ingen-zell/

all 14 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

-itz and -ow are mostly exclusive to the east cuz its used mostly by Slavic Settlements. Just if someone else wondered

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What about -furt? I reckon there's a handful.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

If you follow the link and scroll down a bit, you'll find more, including -furt.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The -ach and -bach are interesting. Are there no rivers in the north?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

It looks like -au basically traces the Elbe basin, so I assume that that ending took over in that area for some reason

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It might be -beek and -bek, due to Lower Saxon (Plattdeutsch) influence. -bruch/-bruck and -brück might also be relevant.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not might, it is this. -bruch, -bruck and -brück are something different though. While being related to the english "brook", a Bruch is swampland. -bruck or -brück however indicate a bridge (like the German word for bridge, Brücke).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Though "bridge" can also refer to a board walk through swampland...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Ach.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is -au originally Germanic or Slavic (as in German/Polish cognates such as Krakau/Krakow)?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

The German -au Wikipedia article (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/-au) says it is of Germanic origin. It's meaning apparently is either wet meadow, running waters or holm.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

-a is missing.