Germanic toponyms are the names given to places by Germanic peoples and tribes. Besides areas with current speakers of Germanic languages, many regions with previous Germanic speakers or Germanic influence had or still have Germanic toponymic elements, such as places in France, Wallonia, Poland, Northern Portugal, Spain and Northern Italy.
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The toponymy of England derives from a variety of linguistic origins. Many English toponyms have been corrupted and broken down over the years, due to...
name, was Sljasvig with the stress on the second syllable. Germanictoponymy Celtic toponymy German exonyms German names for Central European towns List...
Great Britain and Ireland have a very varied toponymy due to the different settlement patterns, political and linguistic histories. In addition to the...
Germanic names, inherited from the Suevi (who settled in Gallaecia: modern Galicia and northern Portugal in 409 AD), Visigoths, Vandals, Franks and other...
(disambiguation), various Air Force universities Aue (toponymy), a frequent element in Germanictoponymy Australia (ISO 3166 country code) Au, Guinea, Kankan...
Pictish; S: Scots; SG: Scots Gaelic; W: Welsh English Place-Name Society Germanictoponymy List of United Kingdom county name etymologies Place name origins...
reconstruct aspects of North Germanic Religion by historical linguistics, archaeology, toponymy, and records left by North Germanic peoples, such as runic inscriptions...
of French words of Germanic origin List of Galician words of Germanic origin Germanic personal names in Galicia#Germanictoponymy in Galicia and Portugal...
Celtic toponymy is the study of place names wholly or partially of Celtic origin. These names are found throughout continental Europe, Britain, Ireland...
The name of Ireland itself comes from the Irish name Éire, added to the Germanic word land. In mythology, Éire was an Irish goddess of the land and of sovereignty...
The Saxons were a group of Germanic peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country (Old Saxony, Latin: Saxonia) near the North...
German (Standard High German: Deutsch, pronounced [dɔʏtʃ] ) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western...
appellative) plus determinative (adjective). This order dominates in Occitan toponymy, as well as in western France. Instead of Neuville, in the south we find...
France is still called Frankreich in German and similar names in some other Germanic languages (such as Frankrijk in Dutch), which means "Frank Reich", the...
Shamhráin. Celtic toponymy Irish name Place names in Ireland Germanic name Scottish Gaelic name Scottish toponymy Welsh surnames Welsh toponymy Families of...
2023. INSEE commune file Caljouw, William Robert (1981). Germanic elements in French Toponymy (Thesis). University of British Columbia. pp. 148, 151. doi:10...
calligrapher Louis Becq de Fouquières (1831–1887), French man of letters Germanictoponymy Becque (disambiguation) Bec (disambiguation) Beek (disambiguation)...
The word is derived from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz. The stem of this word, *þeudō, meant "people" in Proto-Germanic, and *-iskaz was an adjective-forming...
variants from Proto-Germanic *Þeudiskaz (Old English þeod), which originally meant "of the people". This in turn comes from a Germanic word meaning "folk"...
Olai in his Chronica regni Gothorum (c. 1470) notes the similarity in toponymy, Swycia, quasi Suecia. This tradition was taken seriously in 19th-century...
Thor (from Old Norse: Þórr) is a prominent god in Germanic paganism. In Norse mythology, he is a hammer-wielding god associated with lightning, thunder...
sometimes very productively. In toponymy, apa, poel, broek, gaver, drecht, laar and ham are retained as Belgian loanwords. Germanic substrate hypothesis F. Ribezzo...
Faroese Pólland Yiddish פּױלן, Poyln Non-Germanic languages which borrowed their word for Poland from Germanic include: Arabic بولندا, Būlandā Esperanto...
chemical element name etymologies Non-loanwords Proto-Indo-European — Proto-Germanic — Anglo-Saxon How words have been loaned from various languages to (many)...
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